article_snippet.sent: Killer cop Michael Slager is not eligible for South Carolina death penalty
article_snippet.sent: even if Killer cop Michael Slager is convicted of murder, according to local prosecutors.
article_snippet.sent: The North Charleston police officer can't be executed for shooting Walter Scott in the back because the killing did not include any of a list of narrowly-defined 'aggravating circumstances' which state law says are conditions of South Carolina's death penalty.
article_snippet.sent: Killing: Slager is being held in prison on murder charges after The video emerged of a black man being held down by two fellow officers shooting derad 50-year-old Walter Scott .
article_snippet.sent: Slager is facing an accusation of murder - but won't face the death penalty .
article_snippet.sent: A murder indictment and any trial for Slager is still months away - but prosecutors have already said that there is no chance he will be executed.
article_snippet.sent: North Charleston fired Slager last week after he was charged . with murder.
article_snippet.sent: Slager, who was being held in Charleston County jail, could .
highlights_snippet.sent: Michael Slager, who shot Scott in North Charleston, isn't eligible for death .
  