COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says he’s joining a push to overturn a nearly two-decade-old Supreme Court ruling.

Blackville police offer reward for clues in killing of 18-year-old

The Blackville Police Department is offering a reward for information about the murder of an 18-year-old over the summer.

Wilson said in a statement Monday that the high court “got it wrong” in its 2008 Kennedy v. Louisiana decision, when it barred states from imposing the death penalty in cases of child rape where the victim did not die. Wilson joined 20 other attorneys general in a letter to the Department of Justice and the White House General Counsel dated Sept. 2.

2 men found mysteriously shot dead in Screven County

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating

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