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An 81-year-old inmate who was the "longest serving resident of South Carolina's Death Row" died of natural causes this week, officials said.

Fred Singleton passed away Monday at the Kirkland Correctional Institution’s infirmary, the South Carolina Department of Corrections announced on Friday. He was sentenced to die in 1983 for raping and strangling a woman in Newberry County and stealing her jewelry, according to court records.

Singleton spent his last three decades in prison in legal limbo after the state Supreme Court ruled he wasn't competent to be executed because he didn't understand he could die in the electric chair and only answered questions from his attorneys with "yes" or "no," according to The Associated Pr

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