Fulks asks for execution date
One of two men convicted of kidnapping and murdering a Lincoln County student and a South Carolina woman has asked that all appeals be dropped and a South Carolina execution date set.
Chadrick Fulks, a West Hamlin native, is asking the court to set his execution date for the second time. Earlier, he made the same request but dropped it a month later. At that time, Fulks said he was depressed and no longer wanted to live. His latest motion was filed last week in Columbia, South Carolina.
Fulks and Brandon Basham were charged with the kidnapping and murder of 19-year-old Samantha Burns, a student at Marshall University. Burns disappeared after telephoning her mother in November 2002 to tell her she was on her way home from the Huntington Mall. Burns lived in West Hamlin. When Burns never reached her home, a massive manhunt followed. Eventually, her burned-out vehicle was found but her body has never been located.
Authorities alleged that Fulks and Basham killed Burns and then murdered Alice Donovan of Galivants Ferry, South Carolina, after escaping from a Hopkins County, Kentucky jail. Donovan disappeared from a Wal-Mart parking lot in Conway, South Carolina in December 2002. Both Fulks and Basham were tried in South Carolina and sentenced to death in the Donovan case.
They were also charged in West Virginia with Burns’ murder, where they pleaded guilty in federal court. Both men received life sentences in that case.
Despite assurances by the pair that they would cooperate with authorities in locating the bodies, neither woman’s body has ever been located.
Basham and Fulks are on death row at a prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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