List of people executed in South Carolina explained

The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of South Carolina since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976.

Since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Gregg v. Georgia, a total of 43 people have been executed in South Carolina. All of the people executed were convicted of murder. Of the 43 people executed, 36 were executed via lethal injection and 7 via electrocution.^[1]

List of people executed in South Carolina since 1976

	Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Method	Victim(s)	Governor
1		White	29	M	January 11, 1985	Richland	Electrocution	Tommy Taylor and Carlotta Hartness	Richard Riley
2		White	25	M	January 10, 1986
3		White	35	M	April 27, 1990	Horry		Della Louis Sellers	Carroll Campbell
4		White	58	M	September 6, 1991	Richland		Rudolph Tyner
5		Black	39	M	August 18, 1995	York	Lethal injection	Bryan Chambers	David Beasley
6		White	51	M	May 31, 1996	Lexington		West Columbia Police Officer Daniel Wayne Cogburn^[2]
7		White	47	M	July 19, 1996	Charleston		Patti Jo Kornahrens, Jason Avant, and Harry Wilkerson
8		White	35	M	September 6, 1996	Lexington		Dennis Lollis, Charles Bush, and Cynthia Williams
9		White	46	M	October 4, 1996		Electrocution	Sharon "Shari" Faye Smith and Debra May Helmick
10		White	41	M	November 15, 1996	York	Lethal injection	Bill Reyfield and Evelyn Reyfield
11		Black	33	M	November 22, 1996	Charleston		Shirley Mae Mack and Janell M. Garner
12		White	41	M	June 13, 1997	Jasper		Patricia Whitt
13		Black	32	M	November 7, 1997	Charleston		Lucia Aimar
14		White	43	M	March 6, 1998	Beaufort		Betty Gardner
15		White	43	M	July 10, 1998
16		White	40	M	September 25, 1998	Berkeley		Bill Spain, Kenneth Krause, and Louis Cakley
17		Black	43	M	December 4, 1998	Lexington		Ralph Stoudemire
18		Black	53	M
19		Black	40	M	December 11, 1998	Lancaster		Rebecca Ann Eudy
20		Black	38	M	December 18, 1998	Anderson		Christy Johnson and Corrie Johnson
21		Black	40	M	January 8, 1999	Greenville		Chinh Thi Nguyen Le
22		Native American	51	M	January 22, 1999	Charleston		Karen Patterson and Benjamin F. Atkins	Jim Hodges
23		Black	44	M	November 12, 1999			Rhonda Darlene Smith
24		White	31	M	December 3, 1999	Spartanburg		Alex Hopps and James Todd Green
25		Black	32	M	November 3, 2000	Anderson		Dennis Ray Hepler
26		White	39	M	May 3, 2002	Jasper		C. Daniel Swanson and Bruce Kenneth Smalls
27		Black	37	M	August 23, 2002	Charleston		Susan Babich
28		White	40	M	September 13, 2002	Horry		Maggie Passaro
29		White	39	M	March 19, 2004	Georgetown		Georgetown Police Officer Spencer Guerry^[3]	Mark Sanford
30		White	51	M	April 16, 2004	Aiken		John Perry
31		White	38	M	April 23, 2004	Richland		Julie Johnson
32		White	47	M	May 28, 2004	Calhoun	Electrocution	Rosa Lee Dolly Oakley and Shannon Mellon
33		White	36	M	April 15, 2005	Spartanburg	Lethal injection	Alex Hopps and James Todd Green
34		Black	51	M	November 4, 2005	Aiken		4 murder victims
35		White	33	M	December 2, 2005	Greenville		Dickie Smith
36		White	39	M	July 14, 2006	Aiken		Keenan O'Mailia
37		Black	40	M	June 22, 2007	Dorchester		James Brooks
38		White	48	M	June 6, 2008	Aiken		James Riddle, Josie Curry, and Michael Gregory
39		Black	49	M	June 20, 2008	Charleston	Electrocution	Barbara Lafayette and Joseph Lafayette
40		Black	38	M	December 5, 2008	Dorchester	Lethal injection	Melissa McLauchlin
41		White	56	M	February 20, 2009	Edgefield		Linda Williams and Shaun Williams
42		Black	34	M	May 8, 2009	Orangeburg		Robert Montgomery and Sgt. Tommy Harrison
43	^[4]	White	36	M	May 6, 2011	Greenville		Charles Douglas Martin	Nikki Haley

Demographics

Race
White	26	60%
Black	16	37%
Native American	1	2%
Age
20–29	2	5%
30–39	18	42%
40–49	16	37%
50–59	7	16%
60–69	0	0%
Sex
Male	43	100%
Date of execution
1976–1979	0	0%
1980–1989	2	5%
1990–1999	22	51%
2000–2009	18	42%
2010–2019	1	2%
2020–2029	0	0%
Method
Lethal injection	36	84%
Electrocution	7	16%
Governor (Party)
	0	0%
	2	5%
Carroll A. Campbell Jr. (R)	2	5%
David Beasley (R)	17	40%
	7	16%
Mark Sanford (R)	14	33%
Nikki Haley (R)	1	2%
Henry McMaster (R)	0	0%
Total	43	100%

See also

• Capital punishment in South Carolina
• Capital punishment in the United States
• George Stinney, executed in South Carolina in 1944 at the age of 14

External links

• South Carolina Department of Corrections Capital Punishment Web Site

Notes and References

1. Web site: Searchable Execution Database. Death Penalty Information Center. January 9, 2020.
2. News: Cop killer executed in South Carolina. Franklin. Linda.
3. Web site: Police killer put to death. Collins. Jeffrey. Associated Press. Spartanburg Herald-Journal.
4. News: Inmate Jeffrey Motts first to die in SC with new combo of drugs. Collins. Jeffrey. Associated Press. The Post and Courier.