James Earl Reed was executed in the state's electric chair in the state's death chamber in Columbia

James Earl Reed was executed in the state's electric chair in the state's death chamber in Columbia. He did not issue a final statement. He had been on death row since 1996, when he was convicted of murdering Joseph and Barbara Lafayette. Reed, 49, was the 1st person electrocuted in South Carolina in more than 4 years. Reed was the 1st man electrocuted in the U.S. in nearly a year. Daryl Holton, a 45-year-old Tennessee man, died in the electric chair on September 12, 2007. Reed becomes the 1st condemned inmate to be put to death this year in South Carolina, the 8th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1107th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.