JURIST
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The South Carolina Department of Corrections (DOC) filed a motion on Tuesday informing the South Carolina Supreme Court that it obtained a drug to carry out the death penalty through lethal injection. The last time South Carolina executed a prisoner was in May 2011 by lethal injection.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and ACLU of South Carolina filed a lawsuit against the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) on Thursday, claiming the department’s ban on news media interviews for incarcerated people violates the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Wednesday ruled that two South Carolina school disturbance laws cannot be used to prosecute students for disruptive behavior. The other, South Carolina’s so-called “disturbing schools law,” makes it a crime to disturb or loiter in a school building.
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Jocelyn Newman ruled Tuesday that the state’s planned use of a firing squad and an electric chair for executions was unconstitutional. After the convictions, South Carolina passed Bill 200 , which changed the default method of execution in the state to electrocution.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism (SCDPR) challenging a lower court ruling that found the state had waived sovereign immunity by participating in a federal antitrust lawsuit against Google.
HowAppealing
DECEMBER 6, 2023
Courts Tie for No. 1 Judicial Hellhole; Cook County, Illinois; California; New York City and South Carolina asbestos litigation ranked second through fifth”: Everett Catts of The Daily Report of Fulton County, Georgia has this article. Courts Tie for No. “‘Nuclear Verdicts’ Again Cited as Ga.,
The Crime Report
JUNE 21, 2021
Prison officials in the South Carolina Department of Corrections previously said they couldn’t get access to lethal injection drugs, and have yet to put together a group of individuals willing to be a firing squad, leaving the 109-year-old electric chair as the only option to carry out capital punishment sentences, the Associated Press reports. .
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