Alex Murdaugh appeal hearing approaching
SC Supreme Court will hear arguments in Alex Murdaugh’s appeal of his double murder conviction this Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026.
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South Carolina court rejects final death row appeal focused on brain damage from mother’s drinking
South Carolina’s highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while leaving taunting messages for police in the blood of one of his victims.
South Carolina Supreme Court considers lawmaker pay case as legislators aren’t getting paid
The South Carolina Supreme Court suggested solutions Wednesday that could have prevented lawmakers from going unpaid for months while the court reviewed the legality of a June raise.
South Carolina Supreme Court rejects inmate’s request for more firing squad details
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request for more information on the firing squad from an inmate set to die next month over concerns about whether a man executed by the method last month suffered a lingering death.
South Carolina’s highest court dragged into fight over $1.8 billion accounting error
South Carolina’s elected treasurer is asking the state’s highest court to stop a hearing later this month to start the process of removing him from office over a $1.8 billion accounting error that has plagued the state for nearly a decade.
When does a heartbeat start? South Carolina Supreme Court again takes up abortion issue
With a heartbeat abortion ban solidly in place in South Carolina, lawyers for the state and Planned Parenthood return to the state’s highest court Wednesday to argue how restrictive the ban should be.
SC Supreme Court to hear arguments in Planned Parenthood lawsuit
South Carolina’s abortion laws are going back to court.
South Carolina does not set a date for the next execution after requests for a holiday pause
South Carolina’s Supreme Court has not set a date for the state’s next execution after lawyers for four inmates out of appeals asked them to postpone deaths until after Christmas and New Year’s.
South Carolina Supreme Court to decide minimum time between executions
The South Carolina Supreme Court won’t allow another execution in the state until it determines a minimum amount of time between sending inmates to the death chamber.
South Carolina Supreme Court rules state death penalty including firing squad is legal
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.
