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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.
On August 28, 2024, Freddie Eugene Owens, another inmate on death row in South Carolina, had his execution scheduled to be carried out on September 20, 2024. Moore and another four death row inmates were next in line for execution on later dates to be decided, with a court order issued for the five of them to be put to death five weeks apart. [26]
It will be an unusually controversial death penalty. ... SC Supreme Court sets Nov. 1 as next execution date of a death row inmate. ... Now, 31 people on South Carolina’s death row await ...
A Spartanburg man convicted of murder has an execution date set as South Carolina resumes death penalty enforcement. SC Supreme Court sets execution date for Spartanburg man convicted of murder ...
Marion Bowman Jr. was convicted of murdering Kaylee Martin and setting her body on fire in South Carolina’s Dorchester County. Date set for the execution of Marion Bowman Jr., the third SC ...
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]
More than 1,600 people have been executed in the US since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
On August 16, 2022, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Bowman's appeal against the death penalty. Eventually, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of Bowman and finalized his death sentence. [10] As of 2022, Bowman was one of at least 35 men who remained incarcerated on death row in South Carolina. [11]