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Republican legislator admits sending hundreds of child sex abuse videos between work emails

RJ May is accused of using the screen name ‘joebidennnn69’ to exchange 220 different files of children

The Independent UK

FCC taking steps that would allow US prisons to jam prisoners' cellphone signals

Federal officials are moving a step closer to allowing state and federal prisons to jam cellphone signals from devices smuggled to inmates

The Independent UK

South Carolina prisons director is named the new US attorney for the state

The man who has led South Carolina prisons for more than a decade has been named the new U.S. attorney for the state

The Independent UK

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Condemned South Carolina inmate chooses to die by lethal injection

A condemned South Carolina inmate has chosen to be executed by lethal injection for killing a store clerk in 1999

The Independent UK

Death row inmate ordered to choose between three options for how he wants to die

Richard Moore is the only man on the death row to have been convicted by a jury that did not have any African Americans

The Independent UK

South Carolina prepares for first execution in more than 13 years

After July ruling that state’s death penalty is legal, a man on death row has a week to decide how he will be executed

The Guardian - US

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

South Carolina’s prisons director says the state's supply of its lethal injection drug is pure, its electric chair was tested a month ago and its firing squad has the ammunition and training to carry out its first execution in more than 13 years

The Independent UK

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Prison Supervisor Indicted For Accepting Bribes And Smuggling Phones

South Carolina prison supervisor indicted for accepting bribes and providing contraband cellphones, highlighting challenges in combating illegal phone use.

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

Lawyers for six death row inmates out of appeals in South Carolina are asking the state Supreme Court to not immediately restart executions after the state announced it has a drug to restart lethal injections

The Independent UK

Nearly 800 died in SC jails and prisons from 2015-2021, report shows

Nearly 800 people died in South Carolina jails and prisons between 2015 and 2021, according to a new report from researchers at the University of South Carolina School of Law.

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Prosecutors to Congress: Let state prisons jam cellphones

Top state prosecutors are urging Congress to pass legislation allowing state prisons to jam signals of cellphones smuggled to inmates

The Independent UK

South Carolina still seeking a way to hold executions

A small group of South Carolina senators are moving to shield large parts of the state's lethal injection process from public scrutiny

The Independent UK

Can South Carolina execute by firing squad, electrocution? State's high court sets new date to decide

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court now plans to hear oral arguments on Dec. 13 on whether the firing squad and electric chair methods of execution are constitutional.

Tribune News Service

Are the firing squad, electrocution constitutional? SC high court to hear issue in January

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court will take up an appeal in January from Gov. Henry McMaster and Corrections Director Bryan Stirling of a state judge’s ruling earlier this month that both the electric chair and the firing squad execution methods are unconstitutional.

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Do the electric chair, firing squad violate SC Constitution? Trial underway over methods

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Department of Corrections officials who will oversee executions by the electric chair and firing squad in South Carolina do not have the expertise to know how electric voltages or bullets affect the human body to the point of death, argue attorneys who represent three men awaiting…

Tribune News Service

Commentary: With firing squad, South Carolina is trying to return to its barbaric past

South Carolina officials want to shoot Richard Moore to death because in 1999 the now 57-year-old shot and killed Nikki Speedy Mart clerk James Mahoney. They settled on that method after forcing Moore to decide between a firing squad or the state’s 110-year-old electric chair. In short, South Carolina wants…

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SC death row inmate chooses firing squad for state’s first execution since 2011

CHARLESTON, S.C. — South Carolina courts gave Richard Moore eight days to decide exactly how he wants to die, and on Friday he made his choice.

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SC death row inmate chooses firing squad for state’s first execution since 2011

CHARLESTON, S.C. — South Carolina courts gave Richard Moore eight days to decide exactly how he wants to die, and on Friday he made his choice.

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