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Charles Gibbs (November 5, 1798 – April 25, 1831) was the pseudonym of an American pirate, born James D. Jeffers. Jeffers was one of the last active pirates in the Caribbean during the early 19th century, and was among the last persons to be executed for piracy by the United States.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of South Carolina since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. Since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Gregg v. Georgia, a total of 46 people have been executed in South Carolina. All of the people executed were convicted of murder.
Between 1718 and 2024, more than 680 people have been executed in South Carolina. [1] After the nationwide capital punishment ban was overturned in 1976, South Carolina has executed 45 people. [2] Between 2011 and 2024, no one has been executed in the state due to pharmaceutical companies not wanting to sell the drugs needed for lethal ...
Four days later on Sept. 24, two men were executed within an hour of each other: Marcellus Williams was executed in Missouri at 6:10 p.m. CT even though the prosecutors in the case and the victim ...
The state is scheduled to execute Freddie Owens on Sept. 20, which will be South Carolina’s first execution carried out since 2011. McMaster has the power to commute death row inmate sentence ...
A Greenville County inmate will be the first person to face execution in South Carolina since 2011. Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, was ordered to be executed on Sept. 20 after spending more than 20 ...
Georgia was decided in 1976; Gregg v. Georgia, the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision ending the de facto moratorium on the death penalty imposed by the Court in its 1972 decision Furman v. Georgia; List of death row inmates in Georgia; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2015
The shield law was passed, in part, to help the state obtain the drug used to carry out its first execution in 13 years. The provisions of the law, however, extend beyond hiding the manufacturer ...