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Rudolph Tyner

Case from Columbia, SC dated Sep 12, 1982

Victim Details

Rudolph Tyner

Male

Hispanic / Latino

Columbia

SC

1982-09-12

23

Rudolph

Tyner

07/09/2026

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Murder Of Rudolph Tyner

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In the confines of South Carolina's Central Correctional Institution, the life of Rudolph Tyner, a 24-year-old Black man, came to an abrupt and violent end on a Sunday afternoon in September 1982. Tyner was himself a condemned man, residing on death row for the 1978 robbery and shotgun killings of a husband and wife, Bill and Myrtle Moon, in their Murrells Inlet grocery store. While the wheels of justice and the appeals process turned slowly for his own crimes, another form of justice, born of v ...
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