Jurors To Decide If SC Deputies Beat Condemned Man

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Jurors are expected to begin deliberating soon the fate of four sheriff’s deputies accused of beating a federal death row inmate while he was being held in the Lexington County jail.

Closing arguments are expected Friday in Chadrick Fulks’ case against the deputies he says beat him in 2003 while he awaited transfer to the Richland County jail.

Fulks says the officers beat him when he tried to keep photos he considered part of his legal materials from being destroyed.

The deputies say they didn’t attack Fulks and only restrained him to keep him from hurting himself or others.

Fulks and co-defendant Brandon Basham are facing execution for killing Alice Donovan during a two-week, 2,300-mile crime rampage after escaping from a Kentucky jail in 2002.