No death penalty in former Lancaster man’s retrial for 2010 Columbia killing | Local News | lancasteronline.com

DAN NEPHIN | Staff Writer

A Lancaster city man sentenced to death in 2012 for fatally shooting a hip-hop musician in Columbia two years earlier is getting a new trial, and he won’t face the death penalty.

Jakeem Towles, 35, will be retried after a federal judge ruled that one of Towles’ appeals attorneys was ineffective for failing to raise the issue that Towles’ trial attorney was ineffective…

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