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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 44 people have been executed in South Carolina.
Murder. Kidnapping. Criminal possession of a weapon. Sentence. Two life sentences without the possibility of parole plus 5 years [2] The murder of Samantha Josephson, a student at University of South Carolina, in Columbia, South Carolina, occurred on March 29, 2019. [3] Josephson, 21, had ordered an Uber and mistakenly entered a car that she ...
George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who, at the age of 14, was convicted and then executed in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial for the murders of two young white girls in March 1944 – Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8 – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina.
September 4, 2024 at 11:39 AM. File. A Columbia man was charged with murder after a man in another part of South Carolina was beaten to death and his body was set on fire, according to the ...
September 10, 2024 at 10:48 AM. A South Carolina man was killed Monday in a shooting, according to the Lexington County Coroner’s Office. Jalen Latrell Allen, a 22-year-old Columbia resident ...
The Columbia Fire Department said a death was reported Sunday night after firefighters found a person inside a burning South Carolina home.. Firefighters responded to a house fire on Goodwin Way ...
Police located Mason, who had returned to and was still living in his hometown of Columbia, South Carolina. He was a wealthy retiree and a grandfather, quietly living with his family in a suburban neighborhood. Then in January 2003, a large group of police officers called at his door. Mason was completely shocked and had asked where they were from.
It was the first time in the history of South Carolina that a white man was sentenced to death for the murder of a black man. [ 40 ] While on death row, Gaskins said he committed between 100 and 110 murders, [ 41 ] including that of Margaret "Peg" Cuttino, the 13-year-old daughter of then South Carolina State Senator James Cuttino Jr. of Sumter.