Coroner: Death row inmate committed suicide
Published: May 21, 2013 at 9:00 PM EDT|Updated: May 22, 2013 at 1:59 PM EDT
DORCHESTER COUNTY, SC (WCSC) - The Dorchester County Coroner's Office says a death row inmate found dead in his cell Tuesday morning committed suicide.
Coroner Chris Nisbet said Kenneth Justus, a death row inmate at Lieber Correctional Institution, used a razor blade to take his own life. Nisbet said Justus still had the blade in his hand when guards found him.
Justus was serving life for a double murder in Oconee County and was put on death row in 2005 for stabbing another inmate to death.
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