A federal judge has overturned the death sentence of...

A federal judge has overturned the death sentence of a man convicted of killing 2 girls in their elementary school classroom and wounding two teachers 14 years ago in Greenwood. U.S. District Judge Matthew Perry ruled that Jamie Wilson was not competent to decide whether to plead guilty but mentally ill and to waive a jury trial.
The then-19-year-old Wilson pleaded guilty but mentally ill 8 months after Shequila Bradley and Tequila Thomas, both 8, were killed. The rampage wounded seven students and two teachers. He remains on death row at Lieber Correctional Institution in Ridgeville.
In a 15-page order, Perry said the death sentence should be overturned because one of Wilson's lawyers was told during an initial hearing by the state's chief psychiatrist that Wilson was "legally insane at the time of the offense," a change of the psychiatrist's earlier stated opinion.
"The failure of (Wilson's) attorney to advise petitioner and the trial judge concerning the witness' change of opinion and to seek to have the witness state the change of opinion to the trial judge was unreasonable and prejudicial and was a denial of effective assistance of counsel," Perry wrote.