In South Carolina, the governor has the lone ability to grant clemency and reduce a death sentence to life in prison. However ...
In 2021 the General Assembly expanded execution methods to include the electric chair and a firing squad. Including Owens, 32 ...
His lawyer chose lethal injection over the firing squad or electric chair after Owens turned the ... At least five other death row inmates in South Carolina are out of appeals and the state ...
South Carolina is set to execute its first inmate in 13 years after an unintended pause because the state could not obtain ...
A South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed Friday is asking Gov. Henry McMaster to spare his life, something no ...
Corrections Director Bryan Stirling said South Carolina's supply of a common lethal injection drug is pure, its electric chair has been ... of South Carolina's death row inmates argued before ...
However, no South Carolina governor has granted clemency to a death row inmate since 1976 ... the choice citing his Islamic faith. The electric chair or firing squad were his other options.