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South Carolina executes Richard Moore despite objections from judge and jurors

‘To my children and granddaughters, I love you and am so proud of you,’ Moore, 59, said in his last words

The Guardian - US · Nov 1, 2024

‘Don’t take his life’: South Carolina man faces execution despite state justice calling his sentence invalid

Children of Richard Moore, 59, plead for his clemency as experts insist he should be ineligible for capital punishment

The Guardian - US · Oct 29, 2024

South Carolina Supreme Court turns down request for rehearing state’s 6-week abortion ban

COLUMBIA, S.C. — On the day the South Carolina General Assembly picked a new Supreme Court justice, the current members of the state’s highest court said they wouldn’t reconsider a previous ruling striking down a six-week abortion ban.

Tribune News Service · Feb 8, 2023

South Carolina’s 6-week abortion ban is unconstitutional, state Supreme Court rules

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban, ruling 3-2 that it violated the state’s constitutional right to privacy.

Tribune News Service · Jan 5, 2023

South Carolina's 6-week abortion ban is unconstitutional, state Supreme Court rules

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban, ruling it violated the state’s constitutional right to privacy.

Tribune News Service · Jan 5, 2023

South Carolina Supreme Court strikes down state's 6-week abortion ban

This is the first state supreme court to decide whether abortion is a constitutional right since Roe fell.

Axios · Jan 5, 2023

South Carolina Supreme Court strikes down anti-abortion law

State law banning procedure at roughly six weeks is ‘unreasonable’ and unconstitutional, according to ‘monumental’ ruling hailed by southern abortion rights advocates

The Independent UK · Jan 5, 2023

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.

Tribune News Service · Apr 15, 2022

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.

Tribune News Service · Apr 15, 2022

'Our system is broken.' SC Supreme Court justice assails death sentence in Upstate case

COLUMBIA, S.C. — An associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court issued a rare and blunt dissent Wednesday in an Upstate death penalty case about a 1999 convenience store robbery that four of the five justices agreed to uphold.

Tribune News Service · Apr 7, 2022