Ted Clifford
Crime and Courts Reporter at The State
Statewide accountability reporter @thestate in Columbia, SC | Formerly @columbiajourn and @Poynter Fellow | [email protected]
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1 week ago |
thestate.com | Ted Clifford
A longtime Lexington County politician and lawyer, who was once accused of declaring “I am your king. I am your God” by a former employee who sued him for sexual harassment, has been charged with fraudulenty obtaining COVID relief funds from South Carolina. On Friday, Billy R. Oswald, 77, was charged with three counts of fraud related to the theft of funds from the state’s Disaster Unemployment Assistance fund in March 2020, according to warrants.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Ted Clifford
A longtime Lexington County politician and lawyer, who was once accused of declaring “I am your king. I am your God” by a former employee who sued him for sexual harassment, has been charged with fraudulenty obtaining COVID relief funds from South Carolina. On Friday, Billy R. Oswald, 77, was charged with three counts of fraud related to the theft of funds from the state’s Disaster Unemployment Assistance fund in March 2020, according to warrants.
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1 week ago |
gazettextra.com | Ted Clifford
COLUMBIA, S.C. - At 6:01 p.m. Friday, in a crack of rifle shots, Mikal Mahdi was executed inside of the Broad River Road Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. The convicted double murder let out a groaning yell as the bullets struck his chest, followed 80 seconds later by a deep guttural moan as the life seemed to leave him. He was pronounced dead around 6:05 p.m."There was some agony in the cries," said Jeffrey Collins with the Associated Press.
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1 week ago |
thederrick.com | Ted Clifford
COLUMBIA, S.C. — At 6:01 p.m. Friday, in a crack of rifle shots, Mikal Mahdi was executed inside of the Broad River Road Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. The convicted double murder let out a groaning yell as the bullets struck his chest, followed 80 seconds later by a deep guttural moan as the life seemed to leave him. He was pronounced dead around 6:05 p.m.“There was some agony in the cries,” said Jeffrey Collins with the Associated Press.
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1 week ago |
arcamax.com | Ted Clifford
COLUMBIA, S.C. — At 6:01 p.m. Friday, in a crack of rifle shots, Mikal Mahdi was executed inside of the Broad River Road Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. The convicted double murder let out a groaning yell as the bullets struck his chest, followed 80 seconds later by a deep guttural moan as the life seemed to leave him. He was pronounced dead around 6:05 p.m.“There was some agony in the cries,” said Jeffrey Collins with the Associated Press.
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A second person on South Carolina's death row has chosen to die by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi's team announced his choice today, two weeks before his execution scheduled for April 11. https://t.co/ZP4c53K4MG
The only thing I hated more than this statue was the fact that it was taken from us. Awesome work by @BristowatHome, @m0rgan_hughes and @JAABPhoto https://t.co/ZHwh0OALhI
SC just scheduled its 3rd execution of the year. Meanwhile, an autopsy report confirms that 2 people who received the lethal injection died w lungs full of fluid. It raises concerns that the pentobarbital used during executions causes extreme suffering. https://t.co/VGUdngxXmP