List of people executed in South Carolina
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of South Carolina since 1985.
There have been a total of 43 executions in South Carolina since 1985. All of the people executed were convicted of murder. Of the 43 people executed, 36 were executed via lethal injection and 7 via electrocution.[1]
# | Name | Race | Age | Sex | Date of Execution |
Method of Execution |
Victim(s) | Governor |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Joseph Carl Shaw | White | 29 | M | 11 January 1985 | Electrocution | Tommy Taylor and Carlotta Hartness | Richard Riley |
2 | James Terry Roach | White | 25 | M | 10 January 1986 | |||
3 | Ronald Rusty Woomer | White | 35 | M | 27 April 1990[lower-alpha 1] | Della Louis Sellers | Carroll Campbell | |
4 | Donald Henry Gaskins | White | 58 | M | 6 September 1991[lower-alpha 2] | Rudolph Tyner | ||
5 | Sylvester Lewis Adams | Black | 39 | M | 18 August 1995 | Lethal injection[lower-alpha 3] | Bryan Chambers | David Beasley |
6 | Robert South | White | 51 | M | 31 May 1996 | Daniel Wayne Cogburn | ||
7 | Fred H. Kornahrens III | White | 47 | M | 19 July 1996 | Patti Jo Kornahrens, Jason Avant, and Harry Wilkerson | ||
8 | Michael Torrence | White | 35 | M | 6 September 1996 | Dennis Lollis, Charles Bush, and Cynthia Williams | ||
9 | Larry Gene Bell | White | 47 | M | 4 October 1996 | Electrocution | Sharon "Shari" Faye Smith and Debra May Helmick | |
10 | Doyle Cecil Lucas | White | 41 | M | 15 November 1996 | Lethal injection | Bill Reyfield and Evelyn Reyfield | |
11 | Frank Middleton, Jr. | Black | 33 | M | 22 November 1996 | Shirley Mae Mack and Janell M. Garner | ||
12 | Michael Eugene Elkins | White | 41 | M | 13 June 1997 | Patricia Whitt | ||
13 | Earl Matthews, Jr. | Black | 32 | M | 7 November 1997 | Lucia Aimar | ||
14 | John D. Arnold | White | 43 | M | 6 March 1998 | Betty Gardner | ||
15 | John H. Plath | White | 43 | M | 10 July 1998 | |||
16 | Sammy Roberts | White | 40 | M | 25 September 1998 | Bill Spain, Kenneth Krause, and Louis Cakley | ||
17 | Larry Gilbert | Black | 43 | M | 4 December 1998 | Ralph Stoudemire | ||
18 | J.D. Gleaton | Black | 53 | M | ||||
19 | Louis Joe Truesdale, Jr. | Black | 40 | M | 11 December 1998 | Rebecca Ann Eudy | ||
20 | Andrew Lavern Smith[lower-alpha 4] | Black | 38 | M | 18 December 1998 | Christy Johnson and Corrie Johnson | ||
21 | Ronnie Howard | Black | 40 | M | 8 January 1999 | Chinh Thi Nguyen Le | ||
22 | Joseph Ernest Atkins | White | 51 | M | 22 January 1999 | Karen Patterson and Benjamin F. Atkins | Jim Hodges | |
23 | Leroy Joseph Drayton | Black | 44 | M | 12 November 1999 | Rhonda Darlene Smith | ||
24 | David Rocheville | White | 31 | M | 3 December 1999 | James Todd Green | ||
25 | Kevin Dean Young | Black | 32 | M | 3 November 2000 | Dennis Ray Hepler | ||
26 | Richard Charles Johnson | White | 39 | M | 3 May 2002 | C. Daniel Swanson and South Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper Bruce Kenneth Smalls | ||
27 | Anthony Green | Black | 37 | M | 23 August 2002 | Susan Babich | ||
28 | Michael Joseph Passaro | White | 40 | M | 13 September 2002 | Maggie Passaro | ||
29 | David Clayton Hill | White | 39 | M | 19 March 2004 | Spencer Guerry | Mark Sanford | |
30 | Jerry Bridwell McWee | White | 51 | M | 16 April 2004 | John Perry | ||
31 | Jason Scott Byram | White | 38 | M | 23 April 2004 | Julie Johnson | ||
32 | James Neil Tucker | White | 47 | M | 28 May 2004 | Electrocution | Rosa Lee Dolly Oakley and Shannon Mellon | |
33 | Richard Longworth | White | 36 | M | 15 April 2005 | Lethal injection | Alex Hopps and James Todd Green | |
34 | Hastings Arthur Wise | Black | 51 | M | 4 November 2005 | Charles Griffeth, David Moore, Leonard Filyaw, and Sheryl Wood | ||
35 | Shawn Paul Humphries | White | 33 | M | 2 December 2005 | Dickie Smith | ||
36 | William Ernest Downs, Jr. | White | 39 | M | 14 July 2006 | Keenan O’Mailia | ||
37 | Calvin Alphonso Shuler | Black | 40 | M | 22 June 2007 | James Brooks | ||
38 | David Mark Hill | White | 48 | M | 6 June 2008 | James Riddle, Josie Curry, and Michael Gregory | ||
39 | James Earl Reed | Black | 49 | M | 20 June 2008 | Electrocution | Barbara Lafayette and Joseph Lafayette | |
40 | Joseph Gardner | Black | 38 | M | 5 December 2008 | Lethal injection | Missi McLauchlin | |
41 | Luke A. Williams | White | 56 | M | 20 February 2009 | Linda Williams and Shaun Williams | ||
42 | Thomas Treshawn Ivey | Black | 34 | M | 8 May 2009 | Robert Montgomery and Sgt. Tommy Harrison | ||
43 | Jeffrey Brian Motts | White | 36 | M | 6 May 2011 | Charles Douglas Martin | Nikki Haley |
See also
- Capital punishment in South Carolina
- Capital punishment in the United States
- George Stinney, executed in South Carolina in 1944 at the age of 14
Notes
- This was the last execution to be held at Central Correctional Institute in downtown Columbia. The prison complex, on the banks of the Congaree River, has since closed and been demolished.
- This was the first execution conducted at Broad River Correctional Institution, and the last execution in the state when electrocution was mandatory.
- Earlier in the year, the General Assembly changed capital punishment rules to allow either lethal injection or electrocution for means of execution.
- Andrew Lavern Smith was the 500th person to be executed in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
References
- "Searchable Execution Database". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
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