 On September 2, 1982, Gaskins committed another murder, for which he earned the title of the "Meanest Man in America".While incarcerated in the high security block at the South Carolina Correctional Institution, Gaskins killed a death row inmate named Rudolph Tyner, who had received his sentence for killing an elderly couple during a bungled armed robbery of their store in Burgess.Gaskins was hired to commit this murder by Tony Cimo, the son of Tyner's victims.