Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Murder with one of the following aggravating circumstances is the only crime punishable by death in South Carolina: [14] The murder was committed while in the commission of the following crimes or acts: criminal sexual conduct in any degree, kidnapping, trafficking in persons, burglary in any degree, robbery while armed with a deadly weapon, larceny with use of a deadly weapon, killing by ...
Edenfield is the oldest death row inmate in Georgia. Tiffany Moss: Murdered her stepdaughter, 10-year-old Emani Moss. 5 years, 308 days Moss is the only female death row inmate in Georgia. Michael Nance: Robbed a bank and committed murder during a carjacking. 27 years, 159 days Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace
South Carolina has executed 46 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 ...
South Carolina law allows inmates to choose between a new and so far unused firing squad, the electric chair and lethal injection. The two inmates executed since the death chamber restarted — Freddie Owens on Sept. 20 and Richard Moore on Nov. 1 — chose lethal injection.
The inmates have either died of natural causes or, like Allen, been resentenced to other prison terms after successfully appealing their death sentences. South Carolina's death penalty has been in ...
South Carolina death row inmate Freddie Owens died by lethal injection on Friday during the state’s first execution in 13 years. Owens, 46, was sentenced to death in 1999 for killing a ...
South Carolina: Firing squad: Profile: 2 March 13, 2025 David Leonard Wood: 29 38 Texas: Lethal injection: Profile: 3 March 18, 2025 Jessie Dean Hoffman Jr. 46 18 28 Black Louisiana: Nitrogen hypoxia: Profile: 4 March 19, 2025 Aaron Brian Gunches: 53 31 22 White Arizona: Lethal injection Profile: 5 March 20, 2025 Wendell Arden Grissom: 56 37 19 ...