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South Carolina Adds Firing Squad to Death Row Execution Methods

The South Carolina House voted Wednesday, May 5, to add a firing squad to the state’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs—a measure meant to jump-start executions in a state that ...

Fifteen months after SC resumed executions, who remains on death row?

Since executions resumed in Sept. 2024, seven men have been executed by lethal injection and firing squad in South Carolina.
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South Carolina court rejects final death row appeal focused on brain damage from mother’s drinking

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while leaving taunting messages for police ...
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South Carolina court rejects death row appeal days before execution

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while leaving taunting messages for police in ...
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Death row inmate who burned victim's eyes chooses firing squad for execution

A South Carolina death row inmate convicted of killing a man and writing a message to investigators with the victim's blood more than 20 years ago elected on Friday to die by firing squad. Stephen ...