Nine states have put more inmates to death. But since the unintentional execution pause, South Carolina’s deathrow population has dwindled. The state had 63 condemned inmates in early 2011.
The South Carolina Death Row inmate sentenced to die Friday by lethal injection will not ask Gov. Henry McMaster for clemency, a spokesperson for his legal team said.
The United States Supreme Court has denied an application to suspend the execution of a death row inmate one day before his scheduled execution on Friday night.