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Apr 20, 2022 · COLUMBIA, S.C. (WBTW) — More than 35 men are set to be executed in South Carolina — most of who have been on death row for decades. They include a school shooter, murderers who killed during...
The condemned inmates live in single cells, with limited access to fresh air or mental enrichment. These photos reveal just what it looks like to spend your days trapped in an outdated facility, within a broken system, where your only options are to wait and wonder.
Sep 16, 2024 · S.C’s most recent death row inmate, Jerome Jenkins, Jr., 30, is likewise the youngest. An Horry County jury sentenced him to death for shooting and killing two store clerks during separate...
Feb 18, 2021 · Since 1973, more than 8,700 people in the U.S. have been sent to death row. At least 182 weren’t guilty—their lives upended by a system that nearly killed them.
- Phillip Morris
- 8 min
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 44 people have been executed in South Carolina.
May 6, 2019 · While death row inmates in the U.S. are supposed to be closely supervised, they are more likely to commit suicide than male prisoners who aren’t serving death sentences. They also are more likely to commit suicide than males over age 15 who are not incarcerated, according to this study.
Aug 16, 2020 · To prompt a deeper understanding of the death-penalty system in the US, photographer Jackie Black recreated the last meals requested by prisoners on death row before they were executed.
