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Court rejects suit of Columbia killer on death row

A man in prison for a Columbia triple killing is staying on death row.

ABC 17 reports a federal appeals court dismissed Ernest Lee Johnson’s lawsuit. Johnson killed three people in a Columbia convenience store in 1994.

He claims scar tissue could cause painful seizures during lethal injection, making it cruel and unusual punishment. The appeals court rejected that argument.

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