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Associated Press
Published: June 19, 2008
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - An attorney for death row inmate James
Earl Reed says his client made a fatal mistake in choosing to
represent himself at trial.
Attorney Joe Savitz says Reed likely would not be facing the
electric chair on Friday had he not fired his attorney and
represented himself at trial. Reed has made similar arguments in
court appeals, but the state Supreme Court ruled he had been warned
about the dangers of being his own lawyer.
Reed is scheduled Friday to become the first man put to death in
South Carolina's electric chair in more than four years.
He has been on death row since 1996, when he was convicted of
killing his ex-girlfriends' parents, Joseph and Barbara Lafayette,
in their Charleston County home two years earlier. Prosecutors said
he was looking for his ex-girlfriend at the time.
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