SC delays execution, citing lack of lethal injection drugs
4 years ago

SC delays execution, citing lack of lethal injection drugs

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court on Monday stayed the execution of a death row prisoner after corrections officials said they couldn’t obtain the necessary lethal injection drugs in time. An attorney for the state Department of Corrections wrote in a letter to the South Carolina Supreme Court last week that the agency cannot carry out the execution due to the lack of drugs. Lindsey Vann, one of Moore’s attorneys, on Monday said the delay of an execution due to a lack of drugs is unprecedented in the state. The high court affirmed Monday that per state law, Moore must be executed by lethal injection by default because he did not choose between that and electrocution by a deadline earlier this month.

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Condemned South Carolina inmate chooses to die by lethal injection
2 months ago

Condemned South Carolina inmate chooses to die by lethal injection

The Independent  

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Lethal injection, electric chair, firing squad or even nitrogen gas: the execution methods still used in the world today as one death row inmate in the US faces an impossible choice
2 months, 1 week ago

Lethal injection, electric chair, firing squad or even nitrogen gas: the execution methods still used in the world today as one death row inmate in the US faces an impossible choice

Daily Mail  

After languishing on Death Row for almost 25 years, convicted murderer Richard Moore now faces an agonising decision – choosing how he will be executed. Richard Moore, 59, a South Carolina Death Row inmate, has the choice to either die by the firing squad, electric chair or lethal injection Moore has now been on South Carolina's Death Row for 23 …

South Carolina inmate dies by lethal injection in state’s first execution in 13 years
3 months ago

South Carolina inmate dies by lethal injection in state’s first execution in 13 years

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause because prison officials couldn’t get the drugs needed for lethal injections. South Carolina’s governor and corrections director swiftly filed a reply, stating the high court should reject Owens’ petition. First execution in 13 years Owens may be the …

South Carolina justices refuse to stop state’s first execution in 13 years
3 months, 1 week ago

South Carolina justices refuse to stop state’s first execution in 13 years

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stop the execution of Freddie Owens who is set to die by lethal injection next week in the state’s first execution in 13 years. That evidence, plus an argument that Owens’ death sentence was too harsh because a jury never conclusively determined he pulled the trigger on the …

Forced to choose how to die, South Carolina inmate lets lawyer pick lethal injection
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Forced to choose how to die, South Carolina inmate lets lawyer pick lethal injection

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A condemned inmate forced to choose how he’ll be put to death ended weeks of suspense by leaving the decision to his lawyer, who reluctantly told South Carolina prison officials on Friday to prepare for a lethal injection, rather than the electric chair or a firing squad. Owens’ death is now set for Sept. 20, as South …

Inmate awaiting execution says South Carolina didn’t share enough about lethal injection drug
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Inmate awaiting execution says South Carolina didn’t share enough about lethal injection drug

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lawyers for the South Carolina inmate scheduled to be put to death later this month said Tuesday state prison officials didn’t provide enough information about the drug to decide whether he wants to die by lethal injection. How much information should be released to a condemned inmate is one of several pending legal issues before the South …

Inmate asks to delay execution, says co-defendant who blamed him for killing had secret deal
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Inmate asks to delay execution, says co-defendant who blamed him for killing had secret deal

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — An inmate set to be executed in South Carolina in three weeks wants the state Supreme Court to delay the execution so his lawyers can argue his co-defendant who testified against him lied about having no plea deal in exchange for his testimony. Also on Friday, the South Carolina’s Supreme Court promised it would wait at least …

Is South Carolina Willing to Heed the Clearest Lesson We Have About Executions?
54 years, 11 months ago

Is South Carolina Willing to Heed the Clearest Lesson We Have About Executions?

Slate  

Carrying out an execution is always a complicated business that takes a horrible toll on anyone who is associated with it. On Monday, the South Carolina Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for the state’s next execution and also agreed to consider a request from four of the state’s death-row inmates that South Carolina wait at least three months between executions. …

South Carolina prison director says electric chair, firing squad and lethal injection ready to go
3 months, 3 weeks ago

South Carolina prison director says electric chair, firing squad and lethal injection ready to go

The Independent  

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South Carolina Supreme Court rules state death penalty including firing squad is legal
4 months, 3 weeks ago

South Carolina Supreme Court rules state death penalty including firing squad is legal

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina can execute death row inmates by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair, the state’s high court ruled Wednesday, opening the door to restart executions after more than a decade. South Carolina allowing inmates to choose from the three execution methods is far from an effort to inflict pain but a sincere attempt at …

South Carolina Supreme Court rules state death penalty including firing squad is legal
4 months, 3 weeks ago

South Carolina Supreme Court rules state death penalty including firing squad is legal

CNN  

COLUMBIA, S.C. AP — The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state’s death penalty, which now includes a firing squad as well as lethal injection and the electric chair, is legal. The Supreme Court allowed the inmates to add arguments that the shield law was too secret by not releasing the potency, purity and stabilization of lethal injection …

Utah scraps untested lethal drug combination for man’s August execution
5 months ago

Utah scraps untested lethal drug combination for man’s August execution

Associated Press  

Utah officials said Saturday that they are scrapping plans to use an untested lethal drug combination in next month’s planned execution of a man in a 1998 murder case. Defense attorneys for Taberon Dave Honie, 49, had sued in state court to stop the use of the drug combination, saying it could cause the defendant “excruciating suffering.” The execution scheduled …

South Carolina wants to restart executions by firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection
10 months, 2 weeks ago

South Carolina wants to restart executions by firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection

Hindustan Times  

Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that the state's old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments. If the Supreme Court justices allow executions to restart and any additional appeals are unsuccessful, South Carolina's death chamber, unused since May 2011, …

South Carolina wants to restart executions with firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection
10 months, 2 weeks ago

South Carolina wants to restart executions with firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the South Carolina Supreme Court on Tuesday that the state’s old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments. And they got a lawyer for the inmates to say if the Supreme Court bans electrocution and the firing squad and …

South Carolina has lethal injection drug but justices want more info before restarting executions
1 year, 1 month ago

South Carolina has lethal injection drug but justices want more info before restarting executions

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s highest court apparently is not ready to allow the state to restart executions after more than 12 years until they hear more arguments about newly obtained lethal injection drugs as well as a recently added firing squad and the old electric chair. South Carolina has not carried out an execution since 2011 after the state’s …

South Carolina inmates want executions paused while new lethal injection method is studied
1 year, 2 months ago

South Carolina inmates want executions paused while new lethal injection method is studied

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lawyers for six death row inmates out of appeals in South Carolina are asking the state Supreme Court to give full consideration to the state’s new lethal injection rules as well as the electric chair and firing squad before restarting executions after an unintended 12-year pause. The inmates said judges should decide now if the state’s new …

After unintended 12-year pause, South Carolina secures drug to resume lethal injections
1 year, 3 months ago

After unintended 12-year pause, South Carolina secures drug to resume lethal injections

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina has obtained a drug needed to carry out lethal injections and is ready to perform the state’s first execution in over 12 years, officials announced Tuesday. The South Carolina General Assembly passed a shield law in May allowing the state to keep secret the procedure for executions and the suppliers of drugs or other items …

Executions may return to South Carolina; shield law nears OK
1 year, 7 months ago

Executions may return to South Carolina; shield law nears OK

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A bill that would allow South Carolina to buy the drugs needed for lethal injection without revealing the name of the company who sells them will soon be heading for the governor’s desk. South Carolina has had an unintended 12-year moratorium on the death penalty after its lethal injection drugs passed their expiration date and pharmacies refused …

South Carolina gets closer to lethal injection secrecy
1 year, 8 months ago

South Carolina gets closer to lethal injection secrecy

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — After an unintended 12-year moratorium on the death penalty in South Carolina, the state House gave key approval Wednesday to allow the name of any company that sells lethal injection drugs to remain secret, as well as members of the execution team. “Just bring out a dead body.” Sixteen states have carried out nearly 100 lethal injection …

South Carolina Senate OKs ‘shield law’ for lethal injections
1 year, 10 months ago

South Carolina Senate OKs ‘shield law’ for lethal injections

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Senate passed on Wednesday a law shielding the identity of pharmaceutical companies providing lethal injection drugs for state executions. In the latest development for that case, the Supreme Court of South Carolina ordered the South Carolina Department of Corrections to provide more information regarding its attempts to acquire lethal injection drugs. Taylor, the executive …

S. Carolina bill shielding death penalty drugmakers advances
1 year, 10 months ago

S. Carolina bill shielding death penalty drugmakers advances

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Republicans’ quest to resume executions in South Carolina overcame another hurdle Thursday. The state Senate Corrections and Penology Committee approved a bill that would shield the identities of the companies that dispense the drug cocktail used to execute people on death row. Recent sessions have seen futile attempts to begin executing the state’s death row prisoners — …

Court demands more info in South Carolina death penalty case
1 year, 10 months ago

Court demands more info in South Carolina death penalty case

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court ordered a lower court to collect more information from the Department of Corrections regarding the state agency’s attempts to acquire lethal injection drugs. The order reversed a previous ruling that denied the plaintiffs’ request for such information from the circuit court, which Chief Justice Donald Beatty wrote “abused its discretion.” “Inmates’ discovery …

South Carolina still seeking a way to hold executions
1 year, 11 months ago

South Carolina still seeking a way to hold executions

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — As judges decide if the electric chair or a firing squad are legal execution methods in South Carolina, lawmakers are trying to figure out how 14 other states have managed to get the drugs for lethal injections. About 30 inmates are on death row and four of the condemned are out of appeals, but South Carolina’s last …

Electric chair, firing squad’s legality at S. Carolina court
1 year, 11 months ago

Electric chair, firing squad’s legality at S. Carolina court

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s highest court heard arguments Thursday on whether a newly organized firing squad or the old electric chair are legal ways to execute inmates in the state, which has been unable to obtain drugs for lethal injections. The state appealed and the South Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments for nearly three hours Thursday over whether the …

Inmates allege Texas plans to use unsafe execution drugs
1 year, 11 months ago

Inmates allege Texas plans to use unsafe execution drugs

Associated Press  

HOUSTON — Texas plans to use expired and unsafe drugs to carry out executions early this year in violation of state law, three death row inmates allege in a lawsuit. Like other states in recent years, Texas has turned to compounding pharmacies to obtain pentobarbital, which it uses for executions, after traditional drugmakers refused to sell their products to prison …

Judge says SC electric chair, firing squad unconstitutional
2 years, 3 months ago

Judge says SC electric chair, firing squad unconstitutional

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina judge ruled Tuesday that the state’s newly created execution firing squad, as well as its use of the electric chair, are unconstitutional, siding with four death row inmates in a decision sure to be swiftly appealed as the state struggles to implement its new execution protocols. Attorneys for the state countered with their own …

Judge to decide if firing squad or electric chair is cruel
2 years, 4 months ago

Judge to decide if firing squad or electric chair is cruel

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Whether South Carolina can start executing prisoners again either with a firing squad or electric chair is now in the hands of a judge after a trial over whether shooting or electrocuting inmates is cruel and unusual punishment banned by the U.S. Constitution. Lawyers for four death row inmates argued this week the prisoners would feel terrible …

Tennessee execution pause through 2022 could last longer
2 years, 6 months ago

Tennessee execution pause through 2022 could last longer

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After Tennessee Gov. Many of the problems surfaced as part of challenges of Tennessee’s execution process by two death row inmates in federal court. Those cases are on hold until the investigation ordered by Lee concludes — but in the meantime, the state attorney general’s office acknowledged in a May 6 court filing that there may be …

Judge rules Oklahoma’s lethal injection method is constitutional following a legal challenge from dozens of death row prisoners
2 years, 6 months ago

Judge rules Oklahoma’s lethal injection method is constitutional following a legal challenge from dozens of death row prisoners

CNN  

CNN — Four days after a federal court ruled against death row inmates arguing Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol is cruel and unusual, the state’s attorney general asked for more than two dozen executions to be scheduled. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of 28 death row prisoners, named officials with multiple Oklahoma corrections agencies and claimed the injection method causes “constitutionally …

Judge rules Oklahoma’s lethal injection method is constitutional following a legal challenge from dozens of death row prisoners
2 years, 6 months ago

Judge rules Oklahoma’s lethal injection method is constitutional following a legal challenge from dozens of death row prisoners

CNN  

CNN — Oklahoma’s use of a three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday following a lawsuit from nearly 30 people on death row challenging the protocol. The suit, brought on behalf of 28 death row prisoners, named officials with multiple Oklahoma corrections agencies and claimed the state’s lethal injection method violates the Eighth Amendment because it …

Tennessee pauses executions till year’s end to review lethal injection procedures
2 years, 7 months ago

Tennessee pauses executions till year’s end to review lethal injection procedures

LA Times  

Tennessee is pausing executions to enable an independent review of its lethal injection procedures after a testing oversight forced the state to call off the execution of Oscar Smith an hour before he was to die this month. “However, the death penalty is an extremely serious matter, and I expect the Tennessee Department of Correction to leave no question that …

2nd SC execution on hold after court halts firing squad plan
2 years, 8 months ago

2nd SC execution on hold after court halts firing squad plan

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s highest court, two days after pausing plans for a rare firing squad execution, announced Friday that it was putting another execution on hold as inmates challenge the constitutionality of the state’s capital punishment methods. The order comes after the court this week temporarily blocked the state from executing Richard Bernard Moore, whose scheduled April 29 …

Tennessee plans 1st COVID-19-era execution, more scheduled
2 years, 8 months ago

Tennessee plans 1st COVID-19-era execution, more scheduled

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee is set to execute its first inmate Thursday since the start of the pandemic, planning a lethal injection procedure that has become less common in the state than the electric chair in recent years. The execution using the state’s preferred method puts Tennessee on a divergent path from South Carolina, which has been preparing for a …

On Death Row for 2 Decades, South Carolina Inmate Picks the Firing Squad Over Electric Chair
2 years, 8 months ago

On Death Row for 2 Decades, South Carolina Inmate Picks the Firing Squad Over Electric Chair

News 18  

A South Carolina prisoner scheduled to be the first man executed in the state in more than a decade has decided to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair later this month, according to court documents filed Friday. Moore’s would mark the first since Ronnie Lee Gardner ‘s 2010 execution by a five-person firing squad in Utah. …

South Carolina inmate picks firing squad over electric chair
2 years, 8 months ago

South Carolina inmate picks firing squad over electric chair

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina prisoner scheduled to be the first man executed in the state in more than a decade has decided to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair later this month, according to court documents filed Friday. Moore’s would mark the first since Ronnie Lee Gardner ’s 2010 execution by a five-person firing …

How does execution by firing squad work in South Carolina
2 years, 8 months ago

How does execution by firing squad work in South Carolina

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South Carolina Inmate Picks Firing Squad Over Electric Chair
2 years, 8 months ago

South Carolina Inmate Picks Firing Squad Over Electric Chair

Huff Post  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina prisoner scheduled to be the first man executed in the state in more than a decade has decided to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair later this month, according to court documents filed Friday. South Carolina-Execution via Associated Press Moore’s attorneys have asked the state Supreme Court to delay his …

South Carolina death row inmate chooses to be executed by firing squad over the electric chair
2 years, 8 months ago

South Carolina death row inmate chooses to be executed by firing squad over the electric chair

CNN  

CNN — A man sentenced to death in South Carolina has chosen to be executed by firing squad rather than the electric chair, which would make him the first death row inmate to die by firing squad in the state. Last year, the South Carolina legislature passed a law which made electrocution the state’s primary execution method, though death row …

Lawsuit over South Carolina execution methods can go forward
2 years, 8 months ago

Lawsuit over South Carolina execution methods can go forward

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A judge ruled Thursday that a lawsuit brought by four death row inmates challenging South Carolina’s execution methods can move forward as the state attempts to carry out its first execution in more than a decade. Moore, 57, is also first state prisoner to face the choice of execution methods after a law went into effect last …

Inmate asks judges to halt firing squad or electrocution
2 years, 8 months ago

Inmate asks judges to halt firing squad or electrocution

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina inmate set to die either by a firing squad or in the electric chair later this month is asking the state Supreme Court to halt his execution until judges can determine if either method is cruel and unusual punishment. Moore’s lawyers said judges need to review South Carolina’s new firing squad rules to see …

S. Carolina schedules 1st execution with firing squad ready
2 years, 8 months ago

S. Carolina schedules 1st execution with firing squad ready

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina has scheduled its first execution after corrections officials finished updating the death chamber to prepare for executions by firing squad. Moore could face a choice between the electric chair and the firing squad, two options available to death row prisoners after legislators altered the state’s capital punishment law last year in an effort to work …

2 SC death row inmates ask court not to schedule executions
2 years, 9 months ago

2 SC death row inmates ask court not to schedule executions

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lawyers for two men on South Carolina’s death row have asked the state’s Supreme Court to hold off on setting execution dates while they challenge a new law allowing executions by firing squad. Prisons officials began preparing for a firing squad after legislators altered the state’s capital punishment law in an effort to work around a decade-long …

South Carolina Now Ready To Carry Out Executions By Firing Squad
2 years, 9 months ago

South Carolina Now Ready To Carry Out Executions By Firing Squad

Huff Post  

South Carolina is now prepared to carry out executions by firing squad, the Department of Corrections said in a chilling statement Friday. After a law was passed last year allowing firing squads, the state spent $53,000 to renovate the capital punishment facility at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia “to include the capacity to perform an execution by firing squad,” …

Firing-squad executions get the greenlight in South Carolina
2 years, 9 months ago

Firing-squad executions get the greenlight in South Carolina

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina has given the greenlight to firing-squad executions, a method codified into state law last year after a decade-long pause in carrying out death sentences because of the state’s inability to procure lethal injection drugs. During South Carolina’s lengthy debate, Democratic state Sen. Dick Harpootlian — a prosecutor-turned-criminal-defense lawyer — introduced the firing squad option. In …

South Carolina can now carry out firing-squad executions
2 years, 9 months ago

South Carolina can now carry out firing-squad executions

CNN  

Washington CNN — The South Carolina Department of Corrections said Friday that it can now carry out executions by firing squad in the state should death row inmates choose the method. Henry McMaster, a Republican, signed a bill into law that made the electric chair the state’s primary means of execution but allowed inmates the option to instead choose firing …

House panel demands information on federal execution drug
3 years ago

House panel demands information on federal execution drug

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee is demanding the Justice Department provide answers about whether Biden administration officials have any plans to procure the drug used in federal executions despite an ongoing moratorium on capital punishment. Raskin and Pressley want the Justice Department to provide a briefing to the committee’s staff by Dec. 22 about the review that Garland initiated …

Analysis: Mississippi reveals it has lethal injection drugs
3 years, 4 months ago

Analysis: Mississippi reveals it has lethal injection drugs

Associated Press  

— Mississippi has not executed a death row inmate since June 2012, and no executions are currently scheduled. intended to sufficiently anesthetize the prisoner so that he is both unconscious and insensate when the executioner injects the second and third drugs.” In papers filed July 29 in federal court in Jackson, the inmates’ attorneys said they had demanded information from …

2 South Carolina executions halted until firing squad formed
3 years, 6 months ago

2 South Carolina executions halted until firing squad formed

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked the planned executions of two inmates by electrocution, saying they cannot be put to death until they truly have the choice of a firing squad option set out in the state’s newly revised capital punishment law. The state’s plans, the court wrote in an unanimous order, are on hold …

South Carolina inmates want deaths delayed during appeal
3 years, 6 months ago

South Carolina inmates want deaths delayed during appeal

Associated Press  

Days before what could be South Carolina’s first execution in a decade, the two inmates scheduled to die this month under the state’s recently revamped capital punishment statute want an emergency order to stop their planned electrocutions while they appeal their cases. Attorneys for both men have argued that South Carolina hasn’t tried hard enough to get lethal injection drugs …

Federal judge asked to halt 2 South Carolina electrocutions
3 years, 6 months ago

Federal judge asked to halt 2 South Carolina electrocutions

Associated Press  

FLORENCE, S.C. — Attorneys for two prisoners facing death by electrocution under South Carolina’s new capital punishment law are asking a federal judge to block their executions scheduled later this month, describing the electric chair as a particularly cruel and mutilating method of killing. The South Carolina Supreme Court set Sigmon’s execution for June 18 after prison officials indicated the …

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