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A death row inmate could be the seventh scheduled for execution in the past 10 months after a Lexington County judge decided ...
Executions, USC football and women's basketball, and conditions at Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center were among the top news stories of 2024 from Columbia, SC.
The State (Columbia, SC) Execution set for SC cop killer Mikal Mahdi. He would be third person executed this year. Story by ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders is scheduled to die Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57 ...
SC man set for execution Friday is innocent, says witness who helped convict him ... 46, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Friday at a state prison in Columbia, S.C.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — With a South Carolina Supreme Court notice issued on Friday, March 14, Mikal Mahdi will be the fifth death row inmate to be scheduled for execution since the state resumed the ...
Mikal Mahdi is scheduled for execution Friday, April 11, by a South Carolina Department of Corrections firing squad. Mahdi is set to be executed at 6 p.m. at the Broad River Road Correctional ...
COLUMBIA — South Carolina can execute condemned inmates by electrocution or firing squad after the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that both options are constitutional. In a split decision, the ...
SC Supreme Court rules state’s execution methods constitutional, including firing squad July 31, 2024 1:16 PM From hanging pirates to firing squads, pictures reveal 303-year history of SC executions ...
Mikal Mahdi is scheduled for execution Friday, April 11, by a South Carolina Department of Corrections firing squad. Mahdi is set to be executed at 6 p.m. at the Broad River Road Correctional ...
Mikal Mahdi is set for execution by firing squad on April 11 at 6 p.m. at a Columbia prison for the murder of an off-duty Orangeburg officer. Mahdi would be the second in the state to ever die by ...
Columbia, SC (AP) — South Carolina has set a Sept. 20 date to put inmate Freddie Eugene Owens to death in what would be the state's first execution in more than 13 years.