Among the 34 are nine who killed police officers, three who killed children, three who killed their former partner and one who killed their own parents to collect inheritance.
A three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the death sentence of Quincy Allen, who was the last person sentenced to death in Richland County, South Carolina.
On July 10, 2002, the generally tranquil aura of Columbia, South Carolina was punctured by flames.
Early that morning, two people called authorities to report a fire burning on the side of the road. When firefighters arrived they realized it was a body that was aflame a nude woman who had been shot in the head and set on fire.