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    Man convicted of killing Conway Sunhouse employee sentenced to life without parole

    By KATHY ROPP
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    A Nichols man found guilty of armed robbery and murder in connection with the killing of a Sunhouse employee more than three years ago reminded the judge that he has two small children who might never know their father, but the judge said the law left him no choice but to sentence him to life in prison without chance of parole.

    James Elbert Daniels Jr., 30, apologized to the family of Trisha Stull, who was shot twice in the chest in a robbery at the Sunhouse at the intersection of Oak Street and Cultra Road after she had given them money.

    "I wasn't the shooter in this case and I do have two children also who will be losing a father...," he told Circuit Judge Robert E. Hood before the sentencing.

    A female-heavy jury convicted Daniels of two counts of armed robbery, one at the Conway Sunhouse and one at the Lake Arrowhead Scotchman, and murder at the Sunhouse, all in 2015. All three crimes are considered violent, most serious in South Carolina.

    Daniels also has a previous conviction for kidnapping, dating back to 2005, which is also a violent, most serious crime. Hood said the law is clear and he had no choice about the sentence.

    Stull's mom, sister and brother were in the courtroom when the verdicts and sentenced were handed down. They all appeared very emotional, dabbing tears and hugging each other, the prosecutors and an Horry County crime scene investigator.

    None of the Stull family wanted to comment after the court recessed.

    Daniels' attorney Barbara Pratt told Hood before the sentencing that her client was working two jobs when the Stull killing happened and had a pregnant finance. His two children are now, 8 and 3-years-old.

    "I think this is a young man who was trying to get himself away from his brother," she said, adding that he did not pull the trigger in the Stull killing or the slaying of Bala Parachuri, who was killed three weeks before Stull as he worked in the Scotchman on Red Bluff Road in Longs.

    Solicitor Jimmy Richardson and Chief Deputy Solicitor Scott Hixson agreed that James Daniels was not inside either store when the killings happened, but they argued that he was an integral part of the killings because he scouted out the stores before the robberies and killings and drove the car that transported the two men who are charged with the shootings.

    The trio took Newport cigarettes and $50 in each incident. They also took Stull's purse. Although prosecutors say the pattern was the same in each incident, James Daniels was not tried this week for Parachuri's killing.

    Richardson told the jury in his opening statement that there were three men who made up a well-oiled team, even gathering before a crime to talk about how to approach it.

    He said James Daniels was the group’s scout. He went into the stores about 30 minutes before the others looking to see how many employees and customers were inside, how the cash register opened and more. Richardson said Daniels chatted with Trisha Stull and flirted with her a little before making a small purchase.

    Then he went back to the car and drove away. In the case of the Oak Street Sunhouse, he drove down to the area of Teddy Henry’s auction yard while the robbery and murder were happening before he went back to pick up his accomplices and speed away. That was to avoid having anyone be able to identify the vehicle.

    Circuit Judge Robert E. Hood ruled Monday afternoon before the trial started Tuesday morning that the situation warranted a charge of the hand of one is the hand of all, which means the jury wase given the option of finding Daniels guilty of murder even though he wasn’t the one who did the shooting.

    Late Tuesday, all of the parties involved agreed not to make forensic pathologist Lee Proctor return Wednesday. Proctor told the group that Stull had two gunshot wounds. One was minor, but the other went into the left side of her chest and through several vital organs, including her aorta. That was the fatal shot, he said.

    The parties all agreed to pass this information on to the jury adding that James Daniels was not accused of doing the shooting.

    Hood said that videos of the two incidents showed the same people in the same vehicle wearing the same clothes with the same things taken at each convenience store. Hood said the two incidents were glaringly similar, minus a homicide at Lake Arrowhead.

    Parachuri was working at the Scotchman on Red Bluff Road near Longs when he was shot multiple times. Again, Hood said, that the two homicides both involved three defendants, the same vehicle, the same murder weapon with the same items taken. He said the incidents followed the same pattern with a man going into the store about 30 minutes before the crimes, then leaving and driving around before heading back. All three locales are gas stations and all of the crimes occurred during the evening hours.

    Hood also agreed before the trial began to allow a statement that Daniels made to police to be introduced as evidence in the trial. In the statement, Hood said, Daniels acknowledged that he was a participant in the three crimes.

    However, he said he didn’t know the killings were going to happen and all he did was drive.

    He also said in his statement that he knew the others had a gun and he saw them come out of the stores with cash.

    The others charged in connection with these cases are Daniels’ brother, McKinley Daniels, 37, of Loris and Jerome Jenkins, 24, of Loris. All three have been in jail since their arrests.

    Hood also agreed that three letters written by James Daniels to his brother while the two were in jail could be used as evidence in the trial, but a letter written from McKinley to James, found by a jailer in McKinley’s pocket, could be used on only a limited basis in this trial.

    Hixson said these letters, and six more, were confiscated by a suspicious jailer.

    Hixson said the purpose of the letters was to make sure the brothers had their stories straight.

    James Daniels told his brother in one of the letters that he had two jobs and was doing well before he went to jail. He wrote that he participated in the crimes to prove something to his brother.

    “You know I always have your back,” Hixson said James Daniels wrote.

    Only one sentence in McKinley’s letter back to James was allowed in this trial. Hixson said in that one sentence McKinley Daniels wrote that he knew there were no fingerprints left at the scenes because everything he touched, he took.

    It was also pointed out Monday afternoon that James Daniels had previously pleaded guilty to kidnapping. The Horry County Public Index shows that Circuit Judge Edward Cottingham sentenced Daniels to five years in jail on Aug. 10, 2005. He was also give credit for nine months of time served.

    Barbara McDowell, the employee who was robbed in the Lake Arrowhead Scotchman, testified Tuesday morning that there had been several robberies around that time.

    “It was a quiet night, unusually quiet, and I was nervous,” she said.

    She testified that she was in the middle of the store near the front window when she saw two men “scrunched down” outside. At first she thought it was kids playing, but the men, both wearing masks, came in with one going directly behind the counter and the other coming behind her and ushering her to the counter.

    She said she noticed only one gun that was being held at the back of her head.

    She opened the register and gave the men money, but told them she couldn’t open the safe when they instructed her to.

    The men left with about $50 and a handful of cigarettes.

    She said one of the men told her if she didn’t go to the register he would shoot her.

    In that robbery, there is no video of James Daniels scouting out the scene because police didn’t collect the video as far back as 30 minutes because there was no homicide.

    On Wednesday morning, Senior Detective Greg Lent, with the Horry County Police Department’s investigative division, said he had been working the night of Jan. 25, 2015, with an armed robbery task force, along with other officers who were trying to prevent armed robberies from occurring at area convenience stores. They were helping employees close the stores, or making sure they got to their cars safely, among other duties.

    Lent testified that when he went to Daniels’ residence to ask some questions, Daniels willingly accompanied Lent to the precinct in Green Sea for further questioning.

    The jury listened to an audio recording of the interview for almost an hour, in which Lent pushed Daniels for details on his whereabouts on Jan. 25.

    Daniels maintained that he didn’t know what McKinley and Jenkins were doing at the Sunhouse store in Conway. Daniels said after he was flirting with the cashier and went back to the car, McKinley and Daniels weren’t in the car anymore, so he called to find out what was going on. He said they told him to go circle back and pick them up. He said as he turned the car around he heard “two, maybe three” gunshots, but told Lent he “did not know if they actually shot her.”

    In a second interview played to the court, Daniels said after the Lake Arrowhead Scotchman incident, but before the trio returned to Conway, he drove to a Hot Spot gas station in the Loris area to get gas.

    He said he went inside and paid using cash.

    When asked by Lent why he went to the Hot Spot, Daniels said he didn’t know what was going on at that time.

    “I do not know why,” he said.

    Richardson assured the jury that although McKinley Daniels and Jerome Jenkins aren’t being tried this week that they will have their day in court.

    Dates for those trials haven’t been set, according to Richardson.

    Prosecutors have formally stated their intentions to seek the death penalty for Jerome Jenkins and, at one point, had stated their intentions to seek the death penalty for McKinley Daniels, but a court ruled that McKinley Daniels was not an appropriate candidate for the death penalty.

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    Murdered convenience store clerk's sister speaks after suspect pleads guilty

    By Chris Spiker
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    CONWAY, SC (WBTW) - Nearly four years to the day an Horry County convenience store clerk was killed during an armed robbery, one of the suspects pleaded guilty Tuesday.

    37-year-old McKinley Daniels of Loris was sentenced to 45 years in prison for his role in that 2015 robbery and for murder in another one a few weeks before it. Daniels will get credit for a little more than 1,000 days of time served.

    Samantha Stull had nothing to say to Daniels at Tuesday's hearing, after he pleaded guilty to armed robbery in the January 25, 2015 murder of her sister Trisha.

    "We would just like to thank the court system and the solicitors for doing the job they've done, as we come up on four years since Trish has been killed on Friday," Samantha Stull said. "We thank the court for everything that they've done. We wish it could be more, but we thank you for what you have done."

    Prosecutors say Daniels did not have a weapon, but helped rob the Sunhouse convenience store just north of Conway, where Jerome Jenkins is accused of shooting and killing Trisha Stull, who worked at the store.

    Horry County judge Robert Hood thanked the Stull family for their help.

    "I know that nothing that I do here today can make anything better because having her back is the only thing that would make anything better," Hood said to Samantha Stull.

    Daniels also pleaded guilty to murder in the January 2, 2015 shooting death of Bala Paruchuri at a Sunhouse store on South Carolina Highway 905 near Longs.

    Prosecutors say Jenkins and Daniels shot Paruchuri.

    "On the way out, after full compliance with their demands, both individuals are seen on video firing multiple rounds," said 15th circuit chief deputy solicitor Scott Hixson.

    Daniels's plea deal doesn't require him to cooperate and he says he won't testify against anyone else.

    "This plea right here is for me," Daniels said in court Tuesday. "This right here doesn't have anything to do with me coming back to court. Whatever the rest of my codefendants got going on with them, that's for them. I've got nothing to do with that."

    Daniels has ten days to appeal and lesser charges against him were dropped in the plea deal. The 15th Circuit Solicitor had previously sought the death penalty against Daniels.

    In August, McKinley's brother James Daniels was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 2015 Sunhouse shootings.

    Jenkins also appeared in court Tuesday. A prison warden testified about Jenkins's bad behavior while in custody, including using a weapon.

    Jenkins is still awaiting trial.

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    It’s the first Horry County death penalty trial in 10 years. Here’s how Day 1 unfolded

    By Alex Lang
    Myrtle Beach Sun News

    More than 300 potential jurors have been excused as lawyers pick a jury to hear Horry County’s first death penalty case in a decade.

    A jury pool that started months ago with 400 people was whittled down to 120 members by midday Monday. The jury is set to hear the case of Jerome Jenkins, who faces murder, attempted murder and armed robbery charges in connection to a series of convenience store robberies in 2015.

    A large juror pool is needed as the state seeks the death penalty in the case. Monday was the first time potential jurors stood before prosecutors, defense attorneys and the judge in an Horry County courtroom and answered questions. The jury selection process is expected to last a few days.

    The potential jurors left no empty seats as they packed Horry County’s largest courtroom. Jenkins sat a table with his lawyers as the sides collected information on prospective members.

    The jury will decide Jenkins’ fate and, if convicted, the same group will determine if he should be executed.

    The last lethal injection in South Carolina was administered in 2011.

    There are currently three men on death row with cases from Horry County, with the most recent being Louis Winkler in 2008.

    Jenkins — along with McKinley Daniels and James Daniels — is accused of robbing convenience stores in the Conway area. Investigators believe the trio killed Balla Paruchuri in January 2015 at a Sunhouse convenience store on S.C. Highway 905.

    Weeks later the team allegedly robbed the Scotchman on Lake Arrowhead Road and the Sunhouse store on Oak Street, where clerk Trish Stull was shot and killed. Prosecutors say Jenkins and McKinley Daniels entered the stores and robbed them while James Daniels served as lookout and driver.

    The community was on edge following the shooting, and officers visited shops at night to help employees safely close their businesses.

    Last year, a jury convicted James Daniels of murder and two counts of armed robbery, and he was sentenced to life in prison. McKinley Daniels pleaded guilty earlier this year to murder and armed robbery and will spend at least 45 years behind bars.

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    Here is how a jury decided after phase one of a Horry County death penalty trial

    By Alex Lang
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    It took an Horry County jury a little more than an hour to find Jerome Jenkins guilty of robbery and murder at a Sunhouse convenience store in January 2015 and now he faces a potential death sentence.

    The decision came with little surprise or suspense after the defense admitted to the crimes during its opening statement.

    The same jury will hear arguments about whether Jenkins should face the death penalty or life in prison. The second phase of the capital trial is expected to start on Monday and last for several days.

    “It was efficient, it was brutal,” Chief Deputy Solicitor Scott Hixson said of the killing. “There is no doubt.”

    Jenkins — along with McKinley Daniels and James Daniels — robbed convenience stores in the Conway area. Investigators believe the trio killed Balla Paruchuri in January 2015 at a Sunhouse convenience store on S.C. Highway 905.

    Prosecutors during Jenkins’ trial focused on the Paruchuri killing and didn’t present evidence on other incidents.

    The jury during Jenkins’ trial saw surveillance video of the robbery and shooting. Two men enter the store with handguns. One goes behind the counter as Paruchuri steps aside and into a corner. About a minute later, as the men leave the store, they fire several times at Paruchuri, who falls to the ground dead.

    Officially, Jenkins is now guilty of murder, attempted murder and armed robbery for that incident. Hixson said Jenkins was involved from the beginning in the robbery and murder plan.

    Defense attorney Brana Williams reiterated the defense admitted Jenkins’ role in the spree. She added the jury’s role becomes more significant in the next part of the trial.

    “JJ is not saying he is not guilty of those three indictments,” Williams said.

    Later in January 2015, the Daniels and Jenkins team robbed the Scotchman on Lake Arrowhead Road and the Sunhouse store on Oak Street, where clerk Trish Stull was shot and killed. Prosecutors say Jenkins and McKinley Daniels entered the stores and robbed them while James Daniels served as lookout and driver.

    The community was on edge following the shooting, and officers visited shops at night to help employees safely close their businesses.

    Last year, a jury convicted James Daniels of murder and two counts of armed robbery, and he was sentenced to life in prison. McKinley Daniels pleaded guilty earlier this year to murder and armed robbery and will spend at least 45 years behind bars.

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    Facing death: Here is what happened during Day 1 of sentencing in Horry County capital case

    By Alex Lang
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    There was no “cooling off” for Jerome Jenkins after he robbed and killed Balla Paruchuri at a Sunhouse convenience store in January 2015. No thoughts of “what did I do?” or “what was I thinking?” state prosecutors said.

    “You know what Jerome Jenkins did?” Chief Deputy Solicitor Scott Hixson told a jury on Monday. “Doubled down. Doubled down and executed Trish Stull.”

    It’s that second killing prosecutors said is one of the reasons Jenkins should be executed for his crimes. On Saturday, an Horry County jury found Jenkins guilty of murder, attempted murder and armed robbery for the incident that left Paruchuri dead.

    A state-mandated “cooling off” period on Sunday prevented further testimony. Monday marked the start of the second phase of the trial as the jury considers whether Jenkins should face the death penalty or life in prison without parole.

    Hixson said 23 days after Paruchuri’s murder, Jenkins and two other men robbed a Lake Arrowhead Road Scotchman.

    Last year, a jury convicted James Daniels of murder and two counts of armed robbery, and he was sentenced to life in prison. McKinley Daniels pleaded guilty earlier this year to murder and armed robbery and will spend at least 45 years behind bars.

    Hours after the Scotchman incident, the trio went to an Oak Street Sunhouse where Stull worked.

    “Jerome is the only one with a gun,” Hixson said.

    Feet from leaving the store after the robbery, Jerome made his move. Hixson raised his finger like a gun and told the jury how Jenkins fired multiple shots killing Stull.

    Jenkins sat at a defense table as he heard a recount of the crimes. He held his hands near his mouth or nervously bounced them on the table. His demeanor, much more quiet and reserved than during the first phase of the trial.

    During the guilt phase of the trial, Jenkins would joke around or smile. On Monday, he wore all black with a grey tie as he listened to the testimony and watched videos of his crimes.

    Jenkins’ attorney Brana Williams reminded the jury of what she said on Saturday, that Monday would be their chance to tell the rest of Jenkins’ story.

    She implored the jury to keep an open mind and allow Jenkins a fair trial. She added she would hear about a lost boy and the concept if one person commits a crime that everybody involved is responsible.

    “Maybe my client doesn’t deserve mercy, but I’ll tell you what he deserves, justice and he deserves fairness,” Williams said.

    WITNESSES TESTIFY

    The state called several witnesses on Monday as part of its case. Horry police officers described their investigation and showed surveillance video. A clerk from the Scotchman talked about the night she was robbed.

    Former Horry County police officer Shane Owens detailed how he helped local stores close down as the community was on edge after the first robbery.

    On January 23, Owens tried to help Stull close her Sunhouse store, but was called to a domestic violence incident.

    “I told her I’d check the building in the back and sides really well and that everything would be OK and she would be all right. That is what I told her,” Owens said.

    Two days later, Stull was dead.

    Owens said he was helping to close a Dollar General when the silent alarm went off at Stull’s Sunhouse. As Owens raced toward the store, dispatchers said they could not contact Stull on the phone, which increased his fear.

    He arrived and found Stull laying face down, and Owens quickly released she was dead when paramedics stopped providing care.

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    State wraps up case on why murderer should be put to death for Sunhouse store killing

    By Alex Lang
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    A few jurors wiped away tears as Visweswara Cheedipudi described his friend Balla Paruchuri – it was six days of family and work and one day of golf.

    “We even put a sand wedge in his casket,” Cheedipudi said.

    Balla Paruchuri was gunned down during a robbery at Sunhouse convenience store in January 2015. One of the men convicted of his killing, Jerome “JJ” Jenkins, now faces the death penalty.

    Cheedipudi said he got a call from a friend who told him about the robbery. He was watched store surveillance video from his phone and saw his friend lying dead on the floor.

    Jenkins, McKinley Daniels and James Daniels were all convicted for their role in a robbery spree that resulted in two murders and left the community on edge. Last year, a jury convicted James Daniels of murder and two counts of armed robbery, and he was sentenced to life in prison. McKinley Daniels pleaded guilty earlier this year to murder and armed robbery and will spend at least 45 years behind bars.

    Cheedipudi was one of the final witnesses for the state as Horry County jurors consider the death penalty or life in prison for Jenkins.

    The state contends that weeks after the Paruchuri killing, the trio committed two more convenience store robberies including one at the Oak Street Sunhouse where Trish Stull was shot and killed.

    Once the state rested its case on Tuesday, Jenkins’ defense attorneys started to present evidence to show why Jenkins should not be executed.

    State solicitors called several witnesses to show how Jenkins remains a danger to guards while in prison custody. Department of Corrections Psychologist Beverly Wood said she evaluated Jenkins and did not diagnosis him with a major mental illness, such as post-traumatic stress disorder. She did prescribe an anti-anxiety medication.

    During cross-examination, Wood said she couldn’t rule out if Jenkins suffered from a serious condition, but she only spent a brief time evaluating him.

    Prison nurse Jane Tyler also testified about how Jenkins wrote a letter to family member threatening suicide. Prison staff intercepted the letter and Tyler checked on Jenkins to find him in good health.

    She added she believed the letter was Jenkins’ attempt to get money from relatives for his canteen.

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    Corrections officers detail interactions with Jerome Jenkins during sentencing phase

    By Christina Lob
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    HORRY COUNTY, SC (WMBF) - The same jury that convicted a man in the 2015 Sunhouse convenience store murders and robberies is hearing new testimony to decide an appropriate punishment.

    Jerome Jenkins faces either life in prison without parole, or the death penalty.

    The prosecution called correctional officers to the stand on Tuesday to describe their interactions with Jenkins during his time behind bars at Lee Correctional Institution. The jury listened as five officers outlined interactions with Jenkins from 2016 through 2019, some recalling death threats.

    “Mr. Jenkins told me, ‘If you don’t ship me, I’m going to kill one of your officers,’” said Thomas Commander, a correctional officer for the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

    “He stated that he was going to kill me, called me by my first name. My first and last name," said Lt. Damien Green, another correctional officer at the South Carolina Departmet of Corrections.

    Others detailed violent incidents involving Jenkins.

    “I saw him grab something, then he stuck his arm back through the food flap and started swinging in my direction. And he struck me in my right forearm," said correctional officer Jason Fields.

    The jury also heard testimony of separate occasions where Jenkins threw bodily fluids at officers from his cell.

    “He threw, he had a squeeze bottle, and then he squeezed feces in my facial area," said correctional officer Vanessa Fox.

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    Horry County jury decides whether the Sunhouse murderer should face the death penalty

    By Alex Lang
    Myrtle Beach Sun News

    Death.

    An Horry County jury decided Jerome “JJ” Jenkins should face the death penalty for robbing and killing a Sunhouse convenience store clerk in January 2015.

    The jury reached its decision Thursday evening after three hours of deliberation. Last week, the jury found Jenkins guilty of murder, armed robbery and attempted murder.

    Jenkins, wearing all black, had his hands in front of his face as the verdict was read. He dropped them when the clerk announced the jury decided he should face death. One of the sisters of Jenkins’ victims gave a fist pump when the verdict was delivered.

    Jenkins smiled at the jury as they were polled after delivering the death sentence.

    The death sentence will take years to carry out as there will likely be several appeals. South Carolina also hasn’t performed an execution since 2011 as it does not have the necessary chemicals to carry out a lethal injection.

    Jenkins, McKinley Daniels and James Daniels were all convicted for their role in a robbery spree that resulted in two murders and left the community on edge. In early January 2015, Balla Paruchuri was shot and killed at a Sunhouse store.

    Weeks later the trio committed two more robberies, including at another Sunhouse store where Trish Stull was shot and killed.

    Last year, a jury convicted James Daniels of murder and two counts of armed robbery, and he was sentenced to life in prison. McKinley Daniels pleaded guilty earlier this year to murder and armed robbery and will spend at least 45 years behind bars.

    The two phases of Jenkins’ trial lasted two weeks. The jury of six women and six men reached its decision unanimously. One of the jurors was black, and the rest was white. It took four days of questioning hundreds of jurors to find the panel.

    The last four days of the trial were spent presenting evidence on whether Jenkins should face the death penalty.

    “That is the only resolution that speaks truth. That is the only one,” Solicitor Jimmy Richardson said during his closing as he called for Jenkins’ execution.

    Richardson reminded the jury about how both Jenkins and McKinley Daniels were armed during the Paruchuri robbery. In the other robberies, only Jenkins had a gun.

    In both killings the robbery team was a few feet from leaving the store when the shooting started, Richardson said.

    “In Balla Paruchuri’s murder and Trish Stull’s murder, they done had the money, they done had the money,” Richardson said, slamming his hand on the edge of the jury box, “and they killed ‘em anyways.”

    While Jenkins was only convicted of the Paruchuri murder, the state discussed Stull’s killing at length during the sentencing phase.

    Richardson referenced the defense’s opening statements when they asked for a fair trial and justice.

    “It sounds like to me he has earned justice,” Richardson said.

    Defense attorney Ralph Wilson Sr. said Jenkins caused pain for the victims and their families.

    “Mr. Paruchuri did not deserve to die. Mrs. Stull did not deserve to die,” Wilson said.

    No matter what the jury decided, Wilson said, Jenkins would never walk free again. No more McDonald’s; no more movies; no more freedom, Wilson said.

    Jenkins grew up in a difficult situation, living in a neighborhood where people are afraid to drive through, Wilson said. His father was incarcerated and Jenkins was removed from the classroom for behavioral problems several times, Wilson said.

    But, Wilson also recounted what several educators told the jury that Jenkins had a good heart.

    “Deep inside there is good. There is a decency. There is a person worth saving,” Wilson said.

    Mercy isn’t earned, Wilson said, it is something only the jury could give. He implored them to spare his client.

    “I ask of you and I plead with you to give JJ the chance that he has never had,” Wilson said. “I know he has done wrong. He knows he has done wrong. So we ask you, and we plead with you, for mercy in this case.”

    After the death sentence was delivered, Stull’s sister Samantha Stull spoke to the court. She was clearly emotional and angry and had to be told not to speak to Jenkins, but to the judge.

    “I have no remorse or sympathy for JJ,” Samantha Stull said.

    She called a punishment less than death a “disgrace.” Stull said she didn’t wish death on anyone — except the trio now convicted of the spree.

    Jenkins only spoke to the court so he could turn to his family and say “I love you all.”

    Wilson said “obviously we’re disappointed” with the verdict and that Jenkins would start the appeal process.

    Stull’s mother Sherry Stull said the verdict closed a chapter and the family.

    “It’s been a long time coming,” Sherry Stull said. She added Trish’s children will know someone is being punished for her killing. “At least they know someone will be paying a price for taking her life.”

    https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/ne...230466484.html
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
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    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Jerome Jenkins Jr. entered South Carolina's death row on May 17, 2019.

    https://public.doc.state.sc.us/scdc-...id=%2000006034
    Last edited by Steven; 06-11-2019 at 01:01 PM.

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    Anyone know this guy's date of birth? I have it narrowed down between late February to Mid March of 1994.

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