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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Sam Levin

‘He didn’t do it’: days before execution in South Carolina, key witness says he lied

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Hillary Taylor at the statehouse in Columbia, South Carolina, today. Photograph: Jeffrey Collins/AP

Two days before South Carolina is scheduled to execute a man on death row, the key witness for the prosecution has come forward to say that he lied at trial and the state was putting to death an innocent man.

Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, 46, is due to be killed by lethal injection on Friday. His attorneys filed emergency motions to halt the execution, citing new testimony asserting that Allah was wrongfully convicted, but the state supreme court denied the requests late Thursday, saying the execution should proceed.

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