NATION : An Ironic End for a Convicted Killer
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From Times wire services
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A convicted murderer who avoided the electric chair was electrocuted accidentally while sitting on a steel toilet in his cell at Central Correctional Institution, prison officials said today.
Michael Anderson Godwin, 28, apparently was trying to fix a pair of earphones connected to his television set when he bit into a wire and was electrocuted. “It was a strange accident,” prisons spokesman Francis Archibald said. “He was sitting naked on a metal commode.”
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