Top advocates, lawyers react as South Carolinians prepare for first execution in more than a decade
Rev. Sharon Risher, whose mother, Ethel Lance, was killed by Dylann Roof along with eight other...
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Anti-death penalty groups speak out as new executions loom in South Carolina
Advocacy groups are speaking out against the death penalty after the state announced lethal injection executions will start again.
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South Carolina Supreme Court halts first scheduled execution by firing squad
The South Carolina Supreme Court stayed the state’s first execution by firing squad, originally scheduled for April 29.
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Death row inmate selects method of execution as judge moves challenge to death penalty forward
A Richland County judge kept a challenge to the state of South Carolina’s execution methods alive on Thursday, denying the state’s motion to dismiss it.
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S.C. lawmakers vote for return of electric chair and firing squads
As South Carolina’s death row has been delayed by lethal injection shortages, lawmakers have voted to make the electric chair and the firing squad the primary execution methods.
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