COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina death row inmate Jeffrey Motts is just a day away from getting the execution he has asked for ever since he strangled his prison cellmate.
Motts is scheduled to die by injection Friday in Columbia.
He confessed hours after killing Charles Martin in the cell they shared at a state prison in Greenville County in 2005. Motts told investigators that prosecutors shouldn't waste money on a trial because he was already serving two life sentences and a third would not be any worse.
Motts was convicted of killing his 73-year-old great aunt and a 79-year-old man in her home in Spartanburg County in 1995.
Motts, who turned 36 on Thursday, will be the first prisoner executed in South Carolina using a new combination of drugs.
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