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South Carolina’s longest-serving death row inmate dies of natural causes after 42 years in prison
Fred Singleton spent 42 years on death row after being convicted of rape and murder; 24 men remain on South Carolina's death row, officials said.
- Fred Singleton, 81, who had been on death row for four decades, died of natural causes at a state prison hospital, the South Carolina Department of Corrections reported.
- Prosecutors said Singleton broke into the Newberry County home of 73-year-old widow Elizabeth Lominick in 1982, where she was strangled with a bedsheet and found by two of her sisters and her niece.
- At his arrest in Georgetown County, Fred Singleton had Elizabeth Lominick's diamond and gold rings in his pockets, and the victim's car with his fingerprints was found nearby.
- The state's death row now counts 24 men, down from 48 at the end of 2014, with six inmates executed since then, all in 2024 or 2025.
- The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled in 1993 that Singleton's death sentence remains but he cannot be forced to take medication, while Jamie Wilson, 56, faces similar legal limbo after a 2011 competency hearing with no ruling.
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Fred Singleton was sentenced to death in 1983 for raping and murdering a 73-year-old woman. The 81-year-old has now died in prison, writes ABC News. He spent 42 years on death row without being executed.
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