A fact from Shafer v. South Carolina appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 January 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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So was the defendant, in fact, executed? The article seems not to make this clear. I think the article is incomplete without answering that question. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a legal textbook. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 06:36, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The last information known is that the case was sent back for resentencing, maybe even a new trial. I'll look up if what the South Carolina Supreme Court (where the case was remanded to) did once the SCOTUS decision came out. -- Lord Roem (talk) 06:40, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
In 2002, the South Carolina Supreme Court ordered a trial court to proceed with a new sentencing phase. Out of a search of the SC records, I can't find any third appeal of a death sentence on Shafer. I believe that if he was sentenced again to death, he certainly has not been executed yet. -- Lord Roem (talk) 06:45, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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