If it moves forward, it will be the state's first execution in 13 years and the 14th execution in the nation this year. It's also the first of five executions the United States is carrying out in a six-day period between Sept.

An Aiken Department of Public Safety officer was responding to a report about a shooting on Columbia Avenue Northeast when a victim was discovered nearby on Chesterfield Street, Coroner Darryl Ables said in a news release. That’s in the city limits, not far from Aiken High School.

In South Carolina, the governor has the lone ability to grant clemency and reduce a death sentence to life in prison. However, no governor has done that in the state’s 43 executions since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976.

The death happened in the same prison where seven inmates were killed and 17 others were injured in a violent attack in 2018.

The body of a man found in a well has sparked a coroner's investigation in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.