COLUMBIA, S.C. A federal judge denied two South Carolina death row inmates’ request for an injunction, which would delay their upcoming executions. In his order issued Friday, Judge Robert Bryan Harwell said the inmates failed to prove that their claims that the electric chair violates the Eighth Amendment which protects against cruel and unusual punishment are unlikely to succeed in .
U.S. Attorney for South Carolina Peter McCoy. Gang members imprisoned in South Carolina used contraband cellphones to run a sprawling drug empire that left a trail of violence and death in the Palmetto State, according to a federal grand jury investigation. File/Andrew J. Whitaker/Staff
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Corrections Director Bryan Stirling talks during a tour of Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, April 10, 2019. File/AP
Meg Kinnard
COLUMBIA â Gang members imprisoned in South Carolinaâs Department of Corrections used contraband cellphones to run a sprawling drug empire that left a trail of violence and death in the Palmetto State, according to a massive federal grand jury investigation unveiled Thursday.