South Carolina restarted its death chamber this year after an unintended 13-year break in executions in part because ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has decided the state should take a break from executions for the holidays. Justices issued ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court has not set a date for the state’s next execution after lawyers for four inmates out of ...

No South Carolina governor has granted clemency since executions were reestablished in 1976. Moore's was the 45th execution ...

Attorneys for the inmates are reportedly to ask the state Supreme Court to halt executions and issue any more death warrants ...

South Carolina paused executions in 2011 when they could not get the lethal injection drugs required. The state executed Freddie Owens in September, the first death sentence carried out in South ...

Henry McMaster for clemency, which no governor in South Carolina has granted in the previous 44 executions in the state since the death penalty restarted in 1976. Governors in 24 other states have ...

But McMaster refused to grant clemency. No South Carolina governor has reduced a death sentence, and 45 executions have now been carried out since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to restart ...

Republican Gov. Henry McMaster denied Moore’s request for clemency. No governor in South Carolina has granted in the previous 44 executions in the state since the death penalty restarted in 1976.

No South Carolina governor has reduced a death sentence, and 45 executions have now been carried out in the state since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed states to restart them nearly 50 years ago.