There have been 43 executions in South Carolina since 1985. All were for murder.
| Executed person | Date of execution | Method | Victim(s) | Under Governor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joseph Carl Shaw | 11 January 1985 | electric chair | Tommy Taylor and Carlotta Hartness | Riley |
| 2 | James Terry Roach | 10 January 1986 | electric chair | Tommy Taylor and Carlotta Hartness | |
| 3 | Ronald Rusty Woomer | 27 April 1990 | electric chair | Della Louis Sellers | Campbell |
| 4 | Donald Henry Gaskins | 6 September 1991 | electric chair | Rudolph Tyner | |
| 5 | Sylvester Lewis Adams | 18 August 1995 | lethal injection | Bryan Chambers | Beasley |
| 6 | Robert South | 31 May 1996 | lethal injection | Daniel Wayne Cogburn | |
| 7 | Fred H. Kornahrens III | 19 July 1996 | lethal injection | Patti Jo Kornahrens, Jason Avant, and Harry Wilkerson | |
| 8 | Michael Torrence | 6 September 1996 | lethal injection | Dennis Lollis, Charles Bush, and Cynthia Williams | |
| 9 | Larry Gene Bell | 4 October 1996 | electric chair | Sharon "Shari" Faye Smith and Debra May Helmick | |
| 10 | Doyle Cecil Lucas | 15 November 1996 | lethal injection | Bill Reyfield and Evelyn Reyfield | |
| 11 | Frank Middleton, Jr. | 22 November 1996 | lethal injection | Shirley Mae Mack | |
| 12 | Michael Eugene Elkins | 12 June 1997 | lethal injection | Patricia Whitt | |
| 13 | Earl Matthews, Jr. | 7 November 1997 | lethal injection | Lucia Aimar | |
| 14 | John D. Arnold | 6 March 1998 | lethal injection | Betty Gardner | |
| 15 | John H. Plath | 10 July 1998 | lethal injection | Betty Gardner | |
| 16 | Sammy Roberts | 25 September 1998 | lethal injection | Bill Spain, Kenneth Krause, and Louis Cakley | |
| 17 | Larry Gilbert | 4 December 1998 | lethal injection | Ralph Stoudemire | |
| 18 | J.D. Gleaton | 4 December 1998 | lethal injection | Ralph Stoudemire | |
| 19 | Louis Joe Truesdale, Jr. | 11 December 1998 | lethal injection | Rebecca Ann Eudy | |
| 20 | Andrew Lavern Smith | 18 December 1998 | lethal injection | Christy Johnson and Corrie Johnson | |
| 21 | Ronnie Howard | 8 January 1999 | lethal injection | Chinh Thi Nguyen Le | |
| 22 | Joseph Ernest Atkins | 22 January 1999 | lethal injection | Karen Patterson and Benjamin F. Atkins | Hodges |
| 23 | Leroy Joseph Drayton | 12 November 1999 | lethal injection | Rhonda Darlene Smith | |
| 24 | David Rocheville | 3 December 1999 | lethal injection | James Todd Green | |
| 25 | Kevin Dean Young | 3 November 2000 | lethal injection | Dennis Ray Hepler | |
| 26 | Richard Charles Johnson | 3 March 2002 | lethal injection | Bruce Kenneth Smalls and C. Daniel Swanson | |
| 27 | Anthony Green | 23 August 2002 | lethal injection | Susan Babich | |
| 28 | Michael Joseph Passaro | 13 September 2002 | lethal injection | Maggie Passaro | |
| 29 | David Clayton Hill | 19 March 2004 | lethal injection | Spencer Guerry | Sanford |
| 30 | Jerry Bridwell McWee | 16 April 2004 | lethal injection | John Perry | |
| 31 | Jason Scott Byram | 23 April 2004 | lethal injection | Julie Johnson | |
| 32 | James Neil Tucker | 28 May 2004 | electric chair | Rose Lee Dolly Oakley and Shannon Mellon | |
| 33 | Richard Longworth | 4 April 2005 | lethal injection | Alex Hopps and James Todd Green | |
| 34 | Hastings Arthur Wise | 4 November 2005 | lethal injection | Charles Griffeth, David Moore, Leonard Filyaw, and Sheryl Wood | |
| 35 | Shawn Paul Humphries | 2 December 2005 | lethal injection | Dickie Smith | |
| 36 | William Ernest Downs, Jr. | 14 July 2006 | lethal injection | Keenan O’Mailia | |
| 37 | Calvin Alphonso Shuler | 22 June 2007 | lethal injection | James Brooks | |
| 38 | David Mark Hill | 6 June 2008 | lethal injection | James Riddle, Josie Curry, and Michael Gregory | |
| 39 | James Earl Reed | 20 June 2008 | electric chair | Barbara Lafayette and Joseph Lafayette | |
| 40 | Joseph Gardner | 5 December 2008 | lethal injection | Missi McLauchlin | |
| 41 | Luke A. Williams | 20 February 2009 | lethal injection | Linda Williams and Shaun Williams | |
| 42 | Thomas Treshawn Ivey | 8 May 2009 | lethal injection | Sgt. Tommy Harrison and Robert Montgomery | |
| 43 | Jeffrey Brian Motts | 6 May 2011 | lethal injection | Charles Douglas Martin | Haley |
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, people, south and/or carolina:
“A mans interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Sheathey call him Scholar Jack
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passersall.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (18461925)
“No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.”
—Edward Dahlberg (19001977)
“They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didnt know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“I hear ... foreigners, who would boycott an employer if he hired a colored workman, complain of wrong and oppression, of low wages and long hours, clamoring for eight-hour systems ... ah, come with me, I feel like saying, I can show you workingmens wrong and workingmens toil which, could it speak, would send up a wail that might be heard from the Potomac to the Rio Grande; and should it unite and act, would shake this country from Carolina to California.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (18591964)