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 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.
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.
South Carolina’s abortion laws are going back to court.
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.
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.
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.
While South Carolina now longer has the nation’s only all-male supreme court, it does join 18 other states in having all-white justices with the retirement of Chief Justice Don Beatty.
For the first time in nearly two decades, all the justices on South Carolina’s Supreme Court are going to be white.
The South Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether a law passed last year allowing parents to spend taxpayer money on private schools violates part of the he state constitution banning direct aid to anything other than public schools.
