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A South Carolina inmate who spent 42 years on death row has died of natural causes at a prison hospital, according to the state Department of Corrections. Fred Singleton, 81, was sentenced to die in 1983 for raping and strangling a woman in Newberry County and stealing her jewelry,

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The longest-serving inmate on death row in South Carolina died of natural causes, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. Fred Singleton, 81, was pronounced dead at the Kirkland Correctional Institution’s infirmary Monday, according to a post on X by the corrections department. Singleton had been on death row for 42 years.

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