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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 45 people have been executed in South Carolina. All of the people executed were convicted of murder.
A total of 30 inmates remained on death row in South Carolina as of November 2024. [5] 13 years after the state's last execution, the state resumed executions by carrying out the death sentence of convicted killer Freddie Eugene Owens on September 20, 2024. [6] [7]
South Carolina has put 45 inmates to death since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. In the early 2000s, it was carrying out an average of three executions a year. Nine states ...
In less than 10 days, South Carolina’s execution chamber will reopen for the first time in more than 13 years. On Sept. 20, Freddie Owens, 46, a death row inmate convicted of murder, armed ...
The last Black man on South Carolina's death row to be convicted and sentenced by an all-white jury, according to his attorney, is set to be executed for killing a convenience store clerk during ...
South Carolina has executed 45 inmates since the death penalty was resumed in the U.S. in 1976. In the early 2000s, the state was carrying out an average of three executions per year. Only nine ...
At the time of Owens's third death warrant, there was an unofficial moratorium on executions in South Carolina since 2011 due to lack of supplies of drugs used for lethal injection executions, in addition to the expiration of the existing drug supplies and refusal of drug companies to sell their drugs to the state for the purpose of carrying ...
South Carolina has carried out the execution of death row inmate Richard Moore for the 1999 murder of a convenience store clerk, despite calls for clemency from some of his trial's former jurors ...