Electric Chair South Carolina Penitentiary

Stateville correctional center was one of three sites in which executions were carried out by electrocution in illinois.

Electric chair south carolina penitentiary.

There have been a total of 43 executions in south carolina since 1985. The state s other electrocutions were carried out at the menard correctional center in chester and at the. This is the same area that is used for lethal injection. South carolina department of corrections via ap file file this.

George junius stinney jr. The following is a list of people executed by the u s. State of south carolina since 1985. Currently the electric chair is located in the death chamber of the capital punishment facility.

South carolina lawmakers mulls electric chair as only option for condemned. Old sparky is the nickname of the electric chairs in arkansas connecticut florida georgia illinois kentucky nebraska new york ohio oklahoma south carolina texas virginia and west virginia. The south carolina penitentiary renamed the central correctional institution in 1965 was the state of south carolina s first prison. Warren ap corbis execution chamber with witness gallery right washington state penitentiary walla walla.

October 21 1929 june 16 1944 was an african american child who was convicted in a proceeding later vacated as an unfair trial of apparently murdering two white girls betty june binnicker and mary emma thames ages 7 and 11 in his hometown of alcolu south carolina he was executed by electric chair in june 1944. All of the people executed were convicted of murder of the 43 people executed 36 were executed via lethal injection and 7 via electrocution. By the south carolina department of corrections shows the new death row at broad river correctional institution in columbia s c. Electric chair greensville correctional facility jarratt virginia 1991 photo.

Old sparky is sometimes used to refer to electric chairs in general and not one of a. Electrocution is listed as an optional form of execution in alabama florida south carolina and virginia as of 2010 and in arkansas illinois and oklahoma the electric chair is officially an alternate form of execution only to be approved for use if other forms of execution are found unconstitutional in the state at the time of execution. S carolina mulls electric chair as only option for condemned. The electric chair the use of an electric chair in south carolina began in august 1912.

Stinney is the youngest american to be. Associated press 1 2. Completed in 1867 the south carolina penitentiary served as the primary state prison for nearly 130 years until its demolition in 1999. It was located adjacent to the congaree river in columbia south carolina and was added to the national register of historic.