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Aug 26, 2024 · The last execution before this was of 36-year-old Jeffrey Brian Motts, another Greenville County man, on May 6, 2011. (Video above: Jeffrey Motts' execution, original coverage)
Aug 24, 2024 · COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s first execution in 13 years is set for next month, the state Department of Corrections announced Friday. Freddie Owens, 46, is scheduled to die Sept. 20.
Aug 29, 2024 · The last execution in the state was more than 13 years ago, with Stirling saying the state’s supply of a lethal injection drug is pure and stable. He also said the state’s electric chair was ...
Aug 26, 2024 · Another Greenville man, Jefferey Brian Motts, 36, was the last person the state executed in May 2011. He died by lethal injection. Jace Woodrum, the American Civil Liberties Union executive...
Aug 25, 2024 · A Utah inmate in 2010 was the last person to have been executed by a firing squad in the U.S., according to the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. The prisons director has five days...
Sep 11, 2024 · South Carolina has since obtained the drugs required to administer lethal injections and, in 2021, legalized executions by the electric chair and by firing squad.
Aug 26, 2024 · South Carolina’s last execution was in 2011. Since then, the three drugs the state used to kill inmates expired and prison officials could not obtain any more. To restart executions, lawmakers changed the lethal injection protocol to use only one drug and added the firing squad.
