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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 46 people have been executed in South Carolina.
Prior to 2024, 43 convicted murderers were executed in South Carolina between 1985 and 2011; Jeffrey Brian Motts was the most recent person at that point to be executed, with his execution taking place on May 6, 2011, for the murder of his cellmate at Perry Correctional Institution (where Motts was serving a life sentence for murdering his ...
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 ...
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 ...
Months after an infant died in her South Carolina home, her death was called a homicide and her mother has been accused of assault, authorities said. ... She was born on Aug. 20, according to an ...
James Terry Roach (February 18, 1960 – January 10, 1986) was the second person to be executed by the state of South Carolina following the 1976 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court reauthorizing the use of capital punishment by the states.
A man’s body was found at a South Carolina home Wednesday night, and the death was called a homicide, according to the Greenwood County Coroner’s Office.. The victim was 43-year-old Greenwood ...
Moore's execution would be the second execution in five weeks in South Carolina, which previously had not had an execution in more than a decade. Moore was sentenced to death on Oct. 22, 2001.