Rudolph Tyner
Summary of Offense:
On March 18, 1978, in Horry County, Rudolph Tyner, entered a small grocery store and pulled out a sawed-off shotgun. He demanded that the owner and his wife, Bill Moon and Myrtle Moon, give him money from the cash register. They immediately complied. After Tyner got the money, he shot Bill Moon in the chest, killing him. Myrtle Moon began screaming and begging not to be shot. Tyner shot her in the head.
Tyner was soon apprehended, tried, convicted and sentenced to death for his crime.
On September 12, 1982, while on death row, Tyner was murdered by explosives hidden in a radio by Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins. His murder was a contract killing paid for by the victims' son, Tony Cimo.
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