South Carolina killers
Subtitle: crimes of passion
By: Mark Jones.
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9781596293953
Subjects: Murder -- South Carolina -- Case studies; Murder victims -- South Carolina -- Biography; Capital punishment -- South Carolina
Genres: Case studies; Biography
Description: Murder leaves no decade unscarred. In 1903, the lieutenant governor of South Carolina was murdered in broad daylight. In 1944, a fourteen-year-old was marched to the electric chair. Crime writer Mark Jones presents ten of the most horrifying and tragic Palmetto State murder stories from the past one hundred years.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: As long as we are able; title: Murder in broad daylight (1903); title: Last man hanged-the execution of Daniel Duncan (1911); title: The perfect murder of an SOB (1933); title: Hip pocket justice and the execution of Sue Logue (1941); title: Too young to die : the execution of George Stinney Jr. (1944); title: Perry Deveaux (1974); title: A deadly new year's resolution (1992); title: The murder of Rosemary (1994); title: A tragedy in union : the sad saga of Susan Smith (1994); title: Obsession : the death of Mary Lynn Witherspoon (2003).