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Tuesday, September 06, 2011  It's been two decades since Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins, the most prolific killer in South Carolina history, was put to death by the electric chair at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia. Among those who were there to witness Gaskins' execution that day was former Florence county Sheriff Billy Barnes, one of the law enforcement officers most responsible for bringing Gaskins to justice.

Friday, May 06, 2011  South Carolina on Friday executed a man who strangled his cellmate, using a new combination of lethal injection drugs for the first time.

Friday, May 06, 2011  South Carolina is executing an inmate for the first time in nearly two years.

Friday, April 22, 2011  South Carolina officials say they have not decided to change their execution sedative when the state puts an inmate to death next month.

Monday, January 17, 2011  For the first time in seven years, South Carolina did not execute any prisoners in 2010.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010  Some executions in the U.S. have been put on hold because of a shortage of one of the drugs used in lethal injections from coast to coast.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010  A man on federal death row for killing women in South Carolina and West Virginia says he wants to drop any remaining appeals and be executed.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010  A federal judge has ruled against a second former South Carolina prisons employee who said he was forced to perform executions or face a demotion, effectively ending the man's lawsuit against the state corrections agency.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010  South Carolina's top prosecutor won't oppose a ruling which halts the execution of a man who's been on death row longer than any of its current inmates.

Friday, February 05, 2010 

Tuesday, January 05, 2010  South Carolina's highest court has granted a stay to a death row inmate who was just days away from his scheduled execution.

Tuesday, January 05, 2010  South Carolina's highest court has granted a stay to a death row inmate who was just days away from his scheduled execution.

Thursday, May 07, 2009  One more appeal stands between a 34-year-old Alabama man and execution by lethal injection in South Carolina's death chamber.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008  August 22, 2008 was a warm summer day in Manning, South Carolina.  It was the day a 23-year-old woman was robbed, shot execution style, and left for dead.