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The South Carolina House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that allows for firing squads to carry out death penalty sentences and makes electrocution a more likely means of execution.
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 death row inmate executed by firing squad, first in U.S. in 15 years - Brad Sigmon, 67, had a target placed in front of his heart and three employee volunteers shot him ...
No governor in the previous 45 executions in South Carolina since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976 has given mercy and reduced a death sentence to life in prison without parole.
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 ...
This undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.
South Carolina has set a date of Nov. 1 date for its next execution as the state ramps up use of the death penalty after a 13-year pause.
Editor’s note: South Carolina is scheduled to execute death row inmate Mikal Mahdi on April 11. This is a partial transcript of prosecutor Pascoe’s closing argument seeking the death penalty ...
Does South Carolina’s death penalty statute violate the state's constitution as cruel, corporal and unusual punishment? Attorneys representing four condemned inmates and lawyers for the South ...
South Carolina has put 43 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. Only nine ...
South Carolina plans to execute death row inmate Mikal Mahdi April 11. Here’s how Solicitor David Pascoe argued for the death penalty.
South Carolina plans to execute death row inmate Mikal Mahdi April 11. Here’s how Solicitor David Pascoe argued for the death penalty.
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