Convicted Murderer Waives Appeals Partly for Religious Reasons

In Hill v. State of South Carolina, (SC Sup. Ct., April 28, 2008), the South Carolina Supreme Court upheld the right of convicted murderer David Hill to waive his right to further review and have his death sentence carried out. In explaining his decision to forgo further appeals, Hill discussed his father's health and his own, but also said: "part of my religious beliefs are that if you kill somebody, you shed somebody else’s blood, that your blood has to be shed or you have to die in order to be forgiven for that..." Today's Myrtle Beach Sun News reports on the decision.