Alabama Execution Remains on Hold to Evaluate Whether Man Is Competent MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The scheduled execution of an Alabama Death Row inmate will not go forward next week as the state waits ...

A Greenville County judge has ruled that John Richard Wood, convicted in the killing of a South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper, is not competent to be executed, halting the state’s effort to move ...

A US man who claims to be immortal has been deemed too mentally ill to be executed, after spending over two decades on death row. John Richard Wood was sentenced to death after killing state trooper ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - A judge has ordered the halt of the execution of a man who shot and killed a South Carolina state trooper. In an order filed in Greenville County on April 29, a judge ...

A South Carolina inmate convicted of killing a state trooper more than 25 years ago cannot be executed due to a mental illness that has him believing he is immortal, a judge ruled. John Richard Wood, ...