Hearing on SC school choice voucher law
On Wednesday the South Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over the state’s historic school choice law and its constitutionality.
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South Carolina wants to restart executions with firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection
Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that the state’s old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments.
South Carolina justice warns judicial diversity is needed in only state with all-male high court
The man expected to become the next chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court vowed Tuesday to support judicial diversity in the only state with an all-male high court.
Court demands more info in South Carolina death penalty case
The South Carolina Supreme Court ordered a lower court to collect more information from the Department of Corrections regarding the state agency's attempts to acquire lethal injection drugs.
The South Carolina Supreme Court ordered a lower court to collect more information from the Department of Corrections regarding the state agency’s attempts to acquire lethal injection drugs.
South Carolina Supreme Court set for all-male bench
The South Carolina Supreme Court is set for an all-male bench for the first time in 35 years.
The South Carolina Supreme Court is set for an all-male bench for the first time in 35 years.
New date set for execution hearing at SC Supreme Court
The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a new date to hear a lawsuit over the state's execution methods.
The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a new date to hear a lawsuit over the state’s execution methods.
SC Supreme Court to hear oral arguments this week
The South Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral arguments from multiple cases this week.
The South Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral arguments from multiple cases this week.
SC Supreme Court OKs suit over $75M fee to private lawyers
The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a judge needs to decide whether the state attorney general had the right to give $75 million of a $600 million settlement with the federal government over nuclear material storage to private attorneys who helped broker the deal.
The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a judge needs to decide whether the state attorney general had the right to give $75 million of a $600 million settlement with the federal government over nuclear material storage to private attorneys who helped broker the deal.
Inmate asks judges to halt firing squad or electrocution
By Jeffrey Collins
Lawyers for 57-year-old Richard Moore say he shouldn’t face execution until judges can determine if either method is cruel and unusual punishment. Moore is set to die on April 29 unless a court steps in.
Hearn, three dozen more judges elected by SC Legislature
South Carolina Supreme Court associate Justice Kaye Hearn has been elected to another six-year term. Hearn was one of more than three dozen judges put on the bench by the General Assembly on Wednesday.
