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 →
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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 →
Richard Moore Execution Stayed
Today, November 30th, the South Carolina Supreme Court stayed the 12/4 execution date scheduled for Richard Moore. In its stay order, the Court explained it had “been advised the South Carolina Department of Corrections does not have, and will not be able to obtain, the drugs required for execution by lethal injection by December 4,… 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 →
Statement from Richard Moore’s Attorneys on COVID-19 and Secrecy
November 17, 2020 – On December 4, 2020, South Carolina is set to carry out its first execution in nearly a decade under an unprecedented veil of secrecy in the midst of a global pandemic. The South Carolina Department of Corrections refuses to release any information about how it intends to carry out the execution—from… Read More →