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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.
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 ...
The death penalty is on hold while the S.C. Supreme Court determines whether to restart executions by lethal injection, firing squad or the electric chair. ... South Carolina death row inmate ...
Including Owens, 32 people sit on death row in South Carolina. Seventeen inmates — or 53% — are white and 15 are Black. They are all men, ranging in age from 30 to 80, with 54 being the ...
People executed by South Carolina (6 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Prisoners sentenced to death by South Carolina" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
South Carolina has executed 43 inmates since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. Nearly all inmates have chosen lethal injection since it became an option in 1995. South Carolina ...
James Terry Roach (February 18, 1960 – January 10, 1986) was the second person to be executed by the state of South Carolina following the 1976 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court reauthorizing the use of capital punishment by the states.
Moore received the death penalty on Oct. 22, 2001, after a jury found him guilty of murder for shooting 42-year-old James Mahoney on Sept. 16, 1999, at Nikki's Speedy Mart in Spartanburg's Whitney ...