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List of people executed in South Carolina

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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of South Carolina since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976.

Since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Gregg v. Georgia, a total of 50 people have been executed in South Carolina. All of the people executed were convicted of murder. Of the 50 people executed, 40 were executed via lethal injection, 7 via electrocution, and 3 via firing squad.

From 1912 to 1986, executions were carried out at the Central Correctional Institution in Columbia. From 1990 onwards, executions occur at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia.

List of people executed in South Carolina since 1976

Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Method	Victim(s)
White	29	M	January 11, 1985	Richland	Electrocution	Tommy Taylor and Carlotta Hartness	Richard Riley
White	25	M	January 10, 1986
White	35	M	April 27, 1990	Horry	Della Louis Sellers	Carroll Campbell
White	58	M	September 6, 1991	Richland	Rudolph Tyner
Black	39	M	August 18, 1995	York	Lethal injection	Bryan Chambers	David Beasley
White	51	M	May 31, 1996	Lexington	West Columbia Police Officer Daniel Wayne Cogburn
White	47	M	July 19, 1996	Charleston	Patti Jo Kornahrens, Jason Avant, and Harry Wilkerson
White	35	M	September 6, 1996	Lexington	Dennis Lollis, Charles Bush, and Cynthia Williams
White	46	M	October 4, 1996	Electrocution	Sharon "Shari" Faye Smith and Debra May Helmick
White	41	M	November 15, 1996	York	Lethal injection	Bill Reyfield and Evelyn Reyfield
Black	33	M	November 22, 1996	Charleston	Shirley Mae Mack and Janell M. Garner
White	41	M	June 13, 1997	Jasper	Patricia Whitt
Black	32	M	November 7, 1997	Charleston	Lucia Aimar
White	43	M	March 6, 1998	Beaufort	Betty Jean Atkins Gardner
White	43	M	July 10, 1998
White	40	M	September 25, 1998	Berkeley	Bill Spain, Kenneth Krause, and Louis Cakley
Black	43	M	December 4, 1998	Lexington	Ralph Stoudemire
Black	53	M
Black	40	M	December 11, 1998	Lancaster	Rebecca Ann Eudy
Black	38	M	December 18, 1998	Anderson	Christy Johnson and Corrie Johnson
Black	40	M	January 8, 1999	Greenville	Chinh Thi Nguyen Le
Native American	51	M	January 22, 1999	Charleston	Karen Patterson and Benjamin F. Atkins	Jim Hodges
Black	44	M	November 12, 1999	Rhonda Darlene Smith
White	31	M	December 3, 1999	Spartanburg	Alex Hopps and James Todd Green
Black	32	M	November 3, 2000	Anderson	Dennis Ray Hepler
White	39	M	May 3, 2002	Jasper	C. Daniel Swanson and South Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper Bruce Kenneth Smalls
Black	37	M	August 23, 2002	Charleston	Susan Babich
White	40	M	September 13, 2002	Horry	Maggie Passaro
White	39	M	March 19, 2004	Georgetown	Georgetown Police Officer Spencer Guerry	Mark Sanford
White	51	M	April 16, 2004	Aiken	John Perry
White	38	M	April 23, 2004	Richland	Julie Johnson
White	47	M	May 28, 2004	Calhoun	Electrocution	Rosa Lee Dolly Oakley and Shannon Mellon
White	36	M	April 15, 2005	Spartanburg	Lethal injection	Alex Hopps and James Todd Green
Black	51	M	November 4, 2005	Aiken	4 murder victims
White	33	M	December 2, 2005	Greenville	Dickie Smith
White	39	M	July 14, 2006	Aiken	Keenan O'Mailia
Black	40	M	June 22, 2007	Dorchester	James Brooks
White	48	M	June 6, 2008	Aiken	James Riddle, Josie Curry, and Michael Gregory
Black	49	M	June 20, 2008	Charleston	Electrocution	Barbara Lafayette and Joseph Lafayette
Black	38	M	December 5, 2008	Dorchester	Lethal injection	Melissa McLauchlin
White	56	M	February 20, 2009	Edgefield	Linda Williams and Shaun Williams
Black	34	M	May 8, 2009	Orangeburg	Robert Montgomery and Sgt. Tommy Harrison
White	36	M	May 6, 2011	Greenville	Charles Douglas Martin	Nikki Haley
Black	46	M	September 20, 2024	Irene Grainger Graves	Henry McMaster
Black	59	M	November 1, 2024	Spartanburg	James Mahoney
Black	44	M	January 31, 2025	Dorchester	Kandee Louise Martin
White	67	M	March 7, 2025	Greenville	Firing squad	William David Larke and Gladys Gwendolyn Larke
Black	42	M	April 11, 2025	Calhoun	Orangeburg Police Captain James Edward Myers
White	57	M	June 13, 2025	Georgetown and Horry	Lethal injection	Laura Elizabeth Ling and Henry Lee Turner
White	44	M	November 14, 2025	Sumter	Firing squad	Willard Irving Tietjen Jr.

Demographics

Race	Age	Sex
White	29	58%
Black	20	40%
Native American	1	2%
20–29	2	4%
30–39	18	36%
40–49	20	40%
50–59	9	18%
60–69	1	2%
Male	50	100%
1976–1979	0	0%
1980–1989	2	4%
1990–1999	22	44%
2000–2009	18	36%
2010–2019	1	2%
2020–2029	7	14%
Lethal injection	40	80%
Electrocution	7	14%
Firing squad	3	6%
James B. Edwards (R)	0	0%
Richard Riley (D)	2	4%
Carroll A. Campbell Jr. (R)	2	4%
David Beasley (R)	17	34%
Jim Hodges (D)	7	14%
Mark Sanford (R)	14	28%
Nikki Haley (R)	1	2%
Henry McMaster (R)	7	14%

Notes

References

"Execution Database | Death Penalty Information Center". Death Penalty Information Center.
"Child killer faces years on Death Row".
Franklin, Linda. "Cop killer executed in South Carolina".
Collins, Jeffrey. "Police killer put to death". Associated Press.
Collins, Jeffrey. "Inmate Jeffrey Motts first to die in SC with new combo of drugs". Associated Press.

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