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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.
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 ...
South Carolina has executed 46 inmates since the death penalty was resumed in the U.S. in 1976. In the early 2000s, the state was carrying out an average of three executions per year. Only nine ...
South Carolina death row inmate maintains his innocence and won't ask for clemency By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for clemency, saying he didn't want to spend the rest of his life in prison for a ...
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Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be the first U.S. inmate shot to death in an execution in 15 years. Sigmon is scheduled to die ...
Murder with one of the following aggravating circumstances is the only crime punishable by death in South Carolina: [14] The murder was committed while in the commission of the following crimes or acts: criminal sexual conduct in any degree, kidnapping, trafficking in persons, burglary in any degree, robbery while armed with a deadly weapon, larceny with use of a deadly weapon, killing by ...
Three Upstate men on South Carolina's death row now know the order in which the state will put them to death. The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Friday on a petition filed by the men and three ...