ACCIDENTAL DEATH. Michael Anderson Godwin, 28, apparently was trying to repair earphones to a television set. He bit into the electrical cord while sitting naked on a metal commode and was severely burned in his mouth and tongue, Richland County Coroner Frank Barron said. "It was a strange accident," said state Department of Corrections spokesman Francis Archibald. Godwin was an inmate at the Central Correctional Institute. Inmates are allowed to have small televisions but must use earphones. Godwin was sentenced to death in 1981 for a murder and sexual assault committed while on work release for a 1978 robbery conviction. During a retrial he was found not guilty of the sexual assault and was resentenced to life in prison.