Arbitrariness
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Race
,Representation
,Methods of Execution
,Aug 04, 2022
As the trial challenging South Carolina’s execution methods began on Augu…
Secrecy
,Lethal Injection
,Dec 02, 2020
Saying that the state lacked the ability to carry out a lethal injection, the South Carolina Supreme Court has stayed the scheduled December 4, 2020 execution of Richard Moore (pictured). With no state executions …
Methods of Execution
,Apr 26, 2022
The South Carolina Supreme Court has halted two scheduled executions, including one that would have been the state’s first execution by firing squad, amid ongoing legal challenges by state death-row prisoners to the state’s execut…
Representation
,Military
,Mar 06, 2020
NEWS (3/6/20): The United States Court of Military Appeals has upheld the conviction and death sentence of Timothy Hennis, following his acquittal in Nor…
Executions Overview
,Methods of Execution
,Lethal Injection
,Aug 18, 2022
A decision on the constitutionality of South Carolina’s newly adopted execution methods now rests in the hands a trial court judge after lawyers for death-row prisoners and the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) prese…
Race
,History of the Death Penalty
,Recent Legislative Activity
,Methods of Execution
,May 06, 2021
One day shy of the tenth anniversary of the state’s last execution, the South Carolina legislature, frustrated by the state’s inability to obtain execution drugs, approved a bill that would authorize putting prisoners to death in …
Secrecy
,Upcoming Executions
,Methods of Execution
,Nov 20, 2020
South Carolina has issued a death warrant to execute Richard Moore (pictured) on December 4, 2020, but, his lawyers say, the state has refused to tell him how it intends to carry it out. In a motion to st…
Methods of Execution
,Lethal Injection
,Feb 09, 2023
On January 26, South Carolina’s Supreme Court ordered the state to turn over information about its attempts to obtain lethal injection drugs, as part of a suit challenging aspects of the state’s methods of execution. South Carolina has …
Methods of Execution
,Feb 06, 2024
On February 6, 2024, the South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Owens v. Stirling, a case in which death-sentenced prisoners challenged the state’s electrocution and firing squad execution methods as unconstitutional. A South Carolin…
Executions Overview
,Methods of Execution
,Oct 11, 2022
The South Carolina Supreme Court will hear argument one month sooner on the state’s appeal of a trial court ruling that declared two of its statutorily methods of execution — death by electric chair and firing squad — unconstituti…
Executions Overview
,Methods of Execution
,Sep 09, 2022
A South Carolina trial court has issued an injunction preventing the state from carrying out executions using a firing squad or the electric chair, ruling that those methods violate the state’s constitutional prohibition against “…
