• On Jan. 1, 1994, Shawn Paul
Humphries and a friend entered the Max-Saver convenience store in
Fountain Inn.
• The store’s owner, 43-year-old
Dickie Smith, was working that morning. When Humphries pulled out a
gun, Smith reached under the counter. Humphries shot Smith in the
head, killing him.
• Humphries was convicted of
murder, attempted robbery, possession of a firearm during the
commission of a violent crime and criminal conspiracy by a
Greenville County jury in 1994.
• Humphries, a 34-year-old inmate
at Lieber Correctional Institution in Ridgeville, is scheduled to be
executed at 6 p.m.
Friday.
