According to this article from The Greenville News, the Center for Capital Litigation, a nonprofit lawyers group that represented death row inmates in appeals for decades in South Carolina, has closed its doors because of a lack of money.
Joseph Savitz, chief attorney for the South Carolina Office of Appellate Defense, said there is "nobody left" to replace the center. "The fact that they are no longer here increases the chances of an execution that shouldn't occur," he said. "It's a sad thing that there's no money available, especially given the recent disclosures of innocent men sitting on death row and the wrong people being executed."
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This is a crying shame. The lawyers of South Carolina should have stepped up to the plate on this one.
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