On July 31, 2024, the Supreme Court of South Carolina ruled that the death penalty was legal, including the execution methods of electrocution and firing squad, both of which were approved by a majority of the judges, which paved the way for the potential resumption of executions.

21 hours ago · A South Carolina inmate was executed on Friday, the third time in four months the state has carried out the death penalty as it goes through a backlog of inmates who exhausted their appeals when the state was unable to obtain lethal injection drugs.. Marion Bowman Jr., 44, was executed by lethal injection at 6:27 p.m. for his murder conviction in the shooting death of his friend, 21-year-old ...

Sep 21, 2024 · South Carolina has put inmate Freddie Owens to death in the state’s first execution in more than a decade. Friday’s execution came after an unintended 13-year pause on capital punishment in South Carolina that came about because prison officials couldn’t get the drugs needed for lethal injections. (AP video by Allen Breed)

Jul 31, 2024 · The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state’s death penalty, which now includes a firing squad as well as lethal injection and the electric chair, is legal.

Jul 31, 2024 · The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled the state's death penalty is legal. All five justices agreed Wednesday with at least part of the ruling, opening the door to restart executions in a state that hasn’t put an inmate to death since 2011.

2021 — The South Carolina leg­is­la­ture autho­rizes the use of the elec­tric chair and fir­ing squad as the state reach­es a decade with­out any execution. 2022 — South Carolina com­pletes prepa­ra­tions to exe­cute the state’s death row pris­on­ers by firing squad.

Sep 6, 2024 · According to an Aug. 30 S.C. Supreme Court order, six death row inmates, four of whom are Black, have exhausted their appeals and can be executed by the state Department of Corrections (SCDC) at...

Jul 31, 2024 · South Carolina can execute death row inmates by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair, the state's high court ruled Wednesday, opening the door to restart executions after more...

Oct 4, 2024 · COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s high court on Friday set a date of Nov. 1 to put to death a man who killed a store clerk a quarter-century ago, the second of an expected six executions in about six months as the state ramps up …

Jul 31, 2024 · The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state's death penalty, which now includes a firing squad as well as lethal injection and the electric chair, is legal.