Health Affairs

What’s A Syndemic? Hepatitis C Among Injection Drug Users Is An Urgent Example

Given that HCV is a bloodborne virus, any circumstance that promotes continued drug injection—including failure to prevent or diagnose and adequately treat substance use disorders—can result in ...
The State

SC inmate will be executed by lethal injection. Here’s how the method will work

When South Carolina executes a man for the first time in more than a decade this Friday, the state will use the most common method of execution in the United States. Convicted murderer Freddie Owens ...
Winston-Salem Journal

S.C. man to be executed by injection

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Nearly 12 years ago, reeling from his wife's request for a divorce and the breakup of his family, David Mark Hill stormed into a North Augusta social-services office and gunned down ...

S.C. man’s estate receives nearly $1M payout after wrongful death lawsuit

Complications from an epidural injection led to a wrongful death suit against MUSC in Charleston and ultimately a payout by ...
Post and Courier

Firing squad. Electric chair. Lethal injection. Here's how'd they work in South Carolina.

COLUMBIA — Inmates on South Carolina's death row went from one possible way to die, to three. Lethal injection, firing squad or the electric chair. It was the result of several years of litigation by ...
Post and Courier

S.C. killer executed by lethal injection

COLUMBIA — A man who gunned down three people in a Department of Social Services office in 1996 was executed Friday by lethal injection. David Mark Hill, pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. in the state's ...