South Carolina prosecutor seeks death penalty in murder case after Biden reduced sentence to life

Biden spared a killer's life. Now SC prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty on state charges.

State prosecutors will seek death penalty for Brandon Council, the N.C. man who killed two Conway bank employees during 2017 robbery and was on death row until former President Joe Biden commuted federal sentence.

State prosecutors to seek death penalty again man who killed 2 CresCom bank employees

CONWAY, S.C. (WBTW) -- A man convicted of killing two Conway bank workers during a 2017 armed robbery will face state death penalty charges after his federal execution was commuted by former President Joe Biden last December. 15th Circuit Solicitor Jimmy Richardson said in court Tuesday that an Horry County grand jury in August signed indictments for murder and other charges against Brandon Council. Council was convicted in September 2019 in the…

South Carolina prosecutor seeks death penalty in murder case after Biden reduced sentence to life

A local prosecutor in South Carolina plans to seek the death penalty against a man whose federal death sentence for killing two bank employees was commuted to life in prison by President Joe Biden.

State prosecutors to seek death penalty against man who killed 2 CresCom bank employees

CONWAY, S.C. (WBTW) -- A man convicted of killing two Conway bank workers during a 2017 armed robbery will face state death penalty charges after his federal execution was commuted by former President Joe Biden last December. 15th Circuit Solicitor Jimmy Richardson said in court Tuesday that an Horry County grand jury in August signed indictments for murder and other charges against Brandon Council. Council was convicted in September 2019 in the…

Prosecutors seek death penalty after Joe Biden commuted federal death sentences

“We just don’t serve [the death penalty] a lot. When we do serve it, we’ve given a lot of thought to it. Anything can change, but we try to measure twice and cut once, and we’ve waited since December and…