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Thursday, April 04, 2013  A 53-year-old self-styled street preacher who teamed up with a high school student in a deadly plot to lure men with bogus Craigslist job offers has been sentenced to death in Ohio.

Monday, July 02, 2012  A father and son were arrested Friday after twenty marijuana plants were discovered by Orangeburg County investigators during the execution of a search warrant in Neeses.

Sunday, May 06, 2012  The number of people on South Carolina's death row is at a nearly two-decade low.

Friday, March 02, 2012  A mentally disabled man who spent nearly 30 years on South Carolina's death row is getting a bail hearing in Greenwood because of a single strand of hair.

Thursday, February 16, 2012  An Orangeburg man has been arrested following a response to a call of shots fired in a residential area of Cope according to the Orangeburng County Sheirff's Office.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011  Counting down, US inmate nears execution in policeman's killing despite pleas in Europe.

Friday, July 08, 2011  Texas executes Mexican who said he should have gotten consulate help; White House sought stay

Friday, May 06, 2011  Jeffrey Motts is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Friday at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia.

Thursday, May 05, 2011  South Carolina death row inmate Jeffrey Motts is just a day away from getting the execution he has asked for ever since he strangled his prison cellmate.  Motts is scheduled to die by injection Friday in Columbia.

Tuesday, May 03, 2011  Corrections Department spokesman John Barkley said Tuesday executioners will use pentobarbital instead of sodium thiopental after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration seized the state's supply of the drug because of concerns that officials in several states broke the law by buying doses from England.

Friday, April 29, 2011  An attorney for a South Carolina inmate condemned to die for killing his cellmate says he doesn't plan to appeal even if the state changes its lethal injection drugs.  Appellate defender Robert Dudek says he won't request a stay of execution unless his client asks him to do so.

Thursday, April 21, 2011  The states are making the change even as the replacement drug's manufacturer argues against its use in capital punishment and some European countries push export bans for such drugs.

Monday, April 18, 2011  A May 6 execution date has been set for a South Carolina death row prisoner who killed his cellmate, then dragged the man's body into a common area and said "this is what snitches get."  Corrections Department spokesman John Barkley said Monday the state Supreme Court has set the date for Jeffrey Motts' execution by lethal injection.

Friday, September 24, 2010  For the first time in nearly a century, Virginia has put a woman to death.

Friday, June 18, 2010  UPDATED with AP video. The 49-year-old Gardner was shot by a team of five anonymous marksmen with a matched set of .30-caliber rifles early Friday. A barrage of bullets tore into Gardner's chest where a target was pinned over his heart.