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Alex Murdaugh trial: US lawyer convicted of murdering wife and son

March 2, 2023 World Justice News 0

Alex Murdaugh has been convicted of murdering his wife and son after a six-week trial that revealed the prominent lawyer’s spectacular fall from grace. The 54-year-old shot his wife Margaret, 52, four or five times […]

Firing squad and electric chair executions are ‘torture’, US judge rules

September 7, 2022 World Justice News 0

A US judge has ruled carrying out executions by electric chair or firing squad are unconstitutional and amount to “torture”. Lawyers for four inmates in South Carolina who took legal action against the state, had […]

Shooting at South Carolina shopping centre leaves 12 injured

April 17, 2022 World Justice News 0

Ten people have been shot and two others injured in a shooting at a shopping centre in South Carolina Three people who had firearms were arrested after the incident at the Columbiana Centre in Columbia. […]

Lake Keowee: Police refuse to charge South Carolina man over boat shooting

March 21, 2022 World Justice News 0

Officials in the US state of South Carolina say they will not pursue charges against a boater who rescued a drowning man, before shooting him dead. Nathan Drew Morgan, 29, was shot by an unnamed […]

Alex Murdaugh: Hot shot lawyer in failed ‘hit man suicide’ plot indicted

November 6, 2021 World Justice News 0

Prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh has been indicted over a failed attempt to order a hit on himself so that his son could collect $10m (£7.42m) in life insurance. Mr Murdaugh and the alleged […]

Alex Murdaugh: The hot shot US lawyer and the hit man

September 16, 2021 World Justice News 0

Police say that prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh ordered a hit on himself so that his son could collect $10m (£7.24m) in life insurance. The incident comes just three months after Mr Murdaugh’s wife […]

Dylann Roof: US court upholds death sentence on church attacker

August 27, 2021 World Justice News 0

An appeals court in the US has upheld the death sentence given to a white supremacist who killed nine black people at a South Carolina church. Dylann Roof targeted a Bible study group in 2015, […]

South Carolina court halts executions until firing squad is available

June 17, 2021 World Justice News 0

A high court in the US state of South Carolina has blocked two executions until the inmates are given the choice of death by electrocution or firing squad. A new law requires inmates on death […]

South Carolina moves closer to allowing death by firing squad

May 8, 2021 World Justice News 0

South Carolina lawmakers have passed a bill to allow inmates on death row to be executed by firing squad in the absence of lethal injection drugs. When signed into law, it will make South Carolina […]

American man accused in $9m net address theft

May 20, 2019 World Justice News 0

An American man has been accused of stealing net addresses worth more than $9m (£7m) by US prosecutors. Amir Golestan of South Carolina is alleged to have tricked an organisation that controls some net addresses into handing […]

Human Rights

Report finds ‘clear human rights failures’ in southern Scotland

October 7, 2026 0

A new report has found “clear human rights failures” across the south of Scotland with basic obligations on food, health and housing not being met. The study was carried out over eight different local authority […]

Human Rights

Christa Pike set to be first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years still alive after two lethal injections

October 1, 2026 0

A Tennessee death row inmate set to be the first woman to be executed by the state in more than 200 years is still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyers have said. […]

Human Rights

Killer Christa Pike is to be executed within days – but her defence say she’s a victim too

September 27, 2026 0

Ashlee Sellars last heard from her friend Christa Pike earlier this week, when Pike texted her from her cell on death row as she prepares to be killed by lethal injection by the US state […]