White officer charged in South Carolina man's slaying won't face death penalty: paper

[Yahoo! News]

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A white South Carolina police officer charged with murder for shooting a black man in the back as he fled after a traffic stop will not face the death penalty if convicted of the killing, a local newspaper reported on Monday. None of the 22 "aggravating circumstances" that allow state lawyers to seek lethal punishment apply in the April 4 incident in which 50-year-old Walter Scott was fatally shot by North Charleston patrolman Michael Slager, the Post and Courier quoted a local prosecutor as saying. None of those factors are present in this case," Scarlett Wilson, Charleston County's chief prosecutor, told the Charleston newspaper.

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