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| S.C. death row inmate's appeal denied |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 06/28/2004 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to consider an appeal from South Carolina death row inmate Jamie Wilson, convicted of killing two third-graders during a shooting spree at a Greenwood elementary school in 1988. Mental health groups had urged the Supreme Court to use Wilson's case to decide if it is unconstitutional for states to execute people who were seriously mentally ill when they committed their crimes. Wilson pleaded guilty but mentally ill to killing two 8-year-old girls. He had been released from a hospital psychiatric unit about five months before the shootings because his father's insurance no longer covered the bills. The then-19-year-old Wilson walked inside the lunchroom at Oakland Elementary and shot at students and adults with a handgun, then fired more shots in a classroom. Seven other students and two teachers were injured in the September 1988 shooting. |
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