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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of South Carolina since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. Since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Gregg v. Georgia, a total of 46 people have been executed in South Carolina.
Kirkman "Kirk" Finlay Jr. (August 16, 1936 – June 27, 1993) was an American lawyer and politician who served on the Columbia, South Carolina city council from 1974 to 1978 and as that city's mayor from 1978 to 1986. [1] He died of brain cancer in 1993 at the age of 56.
Despite these mitigating factors, the sentencing judge declared that the death penalty was warranted in this case. Roach was executed by electrocution on January 10, 1986, at the Central Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina, aged 25. Roach's sentence was upheld on appeal by the South Carolina Supreme Court.
South Carolina has put 45 inmates to death since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. In the early 2000s, it was carrying out an average of three executions a year. Nine states ...
South Carolina executed Marion Bowman Jr. by lethal injection on Friday in the first execution in the United States this year.. Bowman, who was pronounced dead at 6:27 p.m., was on Death Row for ...
In less than 10 days, South Carolina’s execution chamber will reopen for the first time in more than 13 years. On Sept. 20, Freddie Owens, 46, a death row inmate convicted of murder, armed ...