Fred Singleton was sentenced to death by the State of South Carolina for the murder of Elizabeth Sease Lominick
According to court documents Fred Singleton would break into the home of seventy three year old Elizabeth Sease Lominick. The woman would be sexually assaulted and murdered before her home was robbed
Fred Singleton would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Update – Fred Singleton would pass away from natural causes in 2025
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SINGLETON, FRED (00004336)
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Fred Singleton Case
On September 9, 1982, two sisters and a niece of 73 year old widow Mrs. Elizabeth Sease Lominick found her body in the bedroom of her Newberry County home, strangled with a bedsheet. The medical examiner found sperm and hemorrhaging in her vagina. The appellant was arrested in Georgetown County with diamond and gold jewelry and about $100 belonging to the victim in his pockets. The victim’s car was also found in Georgetown County after the appellant identified it to a passer-by as his. The appellant’s fingerprints were found on the car and on the screen to the bathroom window of Mrs. Lominick’s house.
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Fred Singleton Death
An 81-year-old inmate who was the “longest serving resident of South Carolina’s Death Row” died of natural causes this week, officials said.
Fred Singleton passed away Monday at the Kirkland Correctional Institution’s infirmary, the South Carolina Department of Corrections announced on Friday. He was sentenced to die in 1983 for raping and strangling a woman in Newberry County and stealing her jewelry, according to court records.
Singleton spent his last three decades in prison in legal limbo after the state Supreme Court ruled he wasn’t competent to be executed because he didn’t understand he could die in the electric chair and only answered questions from his attorneys with “yes” or “no,” according to The Associated Press.
However, the justices also decided in 1993 that Singleton’s death sentence should remain in case advances in psychology allowed him to get better and that he couldn’t be forced to take medication to improve his mental state only so he could be executed, the AP added
Prosecutors said Singleton broke into the home of 73-year-old widow Elizabeth Lominick in 1982. Two of her sisters and her niece found her body. She had been strangled with a bedsheet and Singleton’s fingerprints were found on the screen of a bathroom window.
When Singleton was arrested in Georgetown County, he had Lominick’s diamond and gold rings in his pockets, and her car was found nearby with Singleton’s fingerprints inside, police said.
There are now 24 men remaining on South Carolina’s death row after Singleton’s death.
There have been two firing squad executions in South Carolina this year.
In early March, Brad Sigmon, a 67-year-old who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat in 2001, was executed by firing squad for the first time in 15 years in the U.S.
The following month, Mikal Mahdi, 42, was put to death by the same method. He was convicted in the 2004 killings of an off-duty police officer in Calhoun County in South Carolina and a convenience store clerk in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was sentenced to death for the murder of the officer and to life in prison for the clerk’s murder.
Longest-serving South Carolina death row inmate Fred Singleton dies at 81 | Fox News
