For Immediate Release Justice 360’s Response to Execution Notice for Richard Bernard Moore October 4, 2024 – Columbia, S.C. – Today, the Supreme Court of South Carolina issued an Execution Notice for Richard Moore, setting his execution for November 1, 2024. Justice 360 attorneys have represented Richard Moore for more than a… Read More →
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Justice 360 Releases 2020 Annual Report
We are pleased to announce the release of our 2020 Annual Report. Our report includes updates about Justice 360’s work on death row and extreme juvenile sentencing cases. The report also contains updated data on the administration of South Carolina’s death penalty, including data about sentencing, executions, geography and race. We invite you to learn… Read More →
Bill Update: S 200 Polled out of Committee with No Opportunity for Public Comment
February 3, 2021 – SC Senate Bill 200 – Death by Electrocution or Lethal Injection – was polled out of committee yesterday, with no opportunity for public comment or committee debate. S 200 will be considered on the Senate floor today at 11:45 a.m. S 200 proposes to make electrocution the only method for carrying… Read More →
Justice 360 Welcomes Two New Board Members
1.28.2021 – Columbia, S.C. –Justice 360 is pleased to announce the addition of two new board members, Sherard “Shekeese” Duvall with OTR Media Group and Tiffany James with Justice James Consulting. “We are thankful Sherard and Tiffany accepted these positions on our board,” said Lindsey Vann, Executive Director of Justice… Read More →
Executions and Death Sentences Drop to Historic Lows in 2020, even as Federal Government Ramps Up Executions
(Washington, D.C.) In a year unlike any other that featured the combination of court shutdowns from the worst pandemic in more than a century, a national reawakening on racial justice issues, and historically aberrant behavior by the federal government, executions and death sentences in the United States fell to historic lows. The deep decline in… Read More →
Justice 360 Statement on State Secrecy
November 23, 2020 – Richard Moore and his attorneys are not engaging in a last-minute attempt to “cheat the executioner.” For months, even before South Carolina scheduled an execution date, they began asking the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) to provide information about how it intends to carry out Moore’s execution. Moore needs this… Read More →