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| State's Two-Strikes Law Draws Praise, Criticism |
| By wltx.com- David Dykes |
| Published: 10/27/2014 |
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A Greenville man earlier this month received a mandatory life sentence in prison without the possibility of parole for robbing a Greenville-area Dollar General store last year and taking the manager hostage by holding a knife to her throat. A jury convicted James Eddie Bailey of armed robbery, kidnapping, possessing a weapon during a violent crime and resisting arrest. Bailey, 51, was sentenced under South Carolina's "two-strikes" law, which calls for mandatory life without parole when an offender's conviction in a "most serious crime" — certain groups of serious crimes — is not his first. Read More. |
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