Broad River Correctional Institution (BRCI) is a

South Carolina Department of Corrections The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) is the agency responsible for corrections in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It currently has about 4,500 employees and just over 15,000 inmates, in 21 institutions. The agency has its headqu ...

state prison for men located in

Columbia, South Carolina Columbia is the capital of the U.S. state of South Carolina. With a population of 136,632 at the 2020 census, it is the second-largest city in South Carolina. The city serves as the county seat of Richland County, and a portion of the city ...

.Broad River Correctional Institution
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. Retrieved on August 17, 2010. The State of South Carolina execution chamber is located in Broad River.Death Row/Capital Punishment
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. Retrieved on August 17, 2010. The adjacent

Kirkland Correctional Institution Kirkland Correctional Institution is a state prison for men located in Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, United States, owned and operated by the South Carolina Department of Corrections. Kirkland has a special role in South Caroli ...

lies just to its south side. The prison opened in 1988. In January 1990, the death row inmates were moved from the

Central Correctional Institution The South Carolina Penitentiary (renamed the Central Correctional Institution in 1965) was the state of South Carolina's first prison. Completed in 1867, the South Carolina Penitentiary served as the primary state prison for nearly 130 years unti ...

to Broad River. In 1990, executions began at BRCI. On April 12, 1997, death row inmates were moved to the

Lieber Correctional Institution The Lieber Correctional Institution is a maximum-security state prison for men located in Ridgeville, Dorchester County, South Carolina, owned and operated by the South Carolina Department of Corrections. The facility was opened in 1986 and ...

. In September 2017, death row inmates were moved to

. On July 11, 2019, death row inmates were moved from

to the housing unit that was originally built for them at Broad River.

Notable inmates

Death Row

* Quincy Allen – Serial killer who murdered four people. *Steven Bixby – Perpetrator of the 2003 standoff in Abbeville, South Carolina. * Richard Bernard Moore – Convicted of murdering a convenience store clerk during a robbery. *

Stephen Stanko Stephen Christopher Stanko (born January 13, 1968, Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba) is an American convicted murderer, who killed two people and raped a teenage girl in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina in 2005. Prior to the murders Before his mur ...

– Convicted murderer who killed two people. *James William Wilson, Jr. – Perpetrator of the

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Executed

*John Arnold – Executed March 6, 1998, for the racially-motivated

murder of Betty Gardner On April 12, 1978, Betty Gardner, a 33-year-old black woman, was sexually assaulted, tortured, and murdered during a racially-motivated hate crime in St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Gardner had been hitchhiking when she was picked up by four ...

. * Joseph Ernest Atkins – Executed January 23, 1999, for the murders of Karen Patterson and Benjamin F. Atkins. *

Larry Gene Bell Larry Gene Bell (October 30, 1949Shuler, Rita Y. (2007). ''Murder in the Midlands: Larry Gene Bell and the 28 Days of Terror That Shook South Carolina''. The History Press. . – October 4, 1996) was an American murderer and suspected serial ki ...

– Executed October 4, 1996, for the murders of Sharon Faye Smith and Debra Helmick. * Joseph Gardner – Executed December 5, 2008, for the murder of Melissa McLauchlin. *

Donald Henry Gaskins Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins Jr. (born Donald Henry Parrott Jr.; March 13, 1933 – September 6, 1991) was an American serial killer and rapist from South Carolina who stabbed, shot, drowned, and poisoned more than a dozen people. Before his co ...

– Executed September 6, 1991, for the murder of Rudolph Tyner, a fellow inmate on death row. *

Shawn Paul Humphries Shawn Paul Humphries (October 19, 1971 – December 2, 2005) was a murderer executed by the U.S. state of South Carolina. He was convicted of the January 1, 1994, murder of Dickie Smith in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. Humphries was pronounced de ...

– Executed December 2, 2005, for the murder of Dickie Smith. *Richard Longworth – Executed April 15, 2005, for the

murders of Alex Hopps and James Green The murders of Alex Hopps and James Green occurred on January 7, 1991, in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Hopps and Green were theater attendants at the WestGate Mall Cinema, where they were murdered during a robbery by David Rocheville (January 28, 1 ...

. *John Plath – Executed July 10, 1998, for the racially-motivated

. *

James Earl Reed James Earl Reed (November 26, 1958 – June 20, 2008) was an American convicted murderer put to death in the state of South Carolina by electrocution in " Old Sparky", the state's electric chair. He is currently the last person executed in South ...

– Executed June 20, 2008, for the murders of Barbara and Joseph Lafayette. *David Rocheville – Executed December 3, 1999, for the

. *

Michael Torrence Michael Rian Torrence (April 15, 1961 – September 6, 1996) was an American serial killer responsible for the murders of three people in South Carolina from February to March 1987, two of which were committed with the help of his brother and his ...

– Executed September 6, 1996, for the murders of Dennis Lollis, Charles Bush, and Cynthia Williams. *

James Neil Tucker James Neil Tucker (January 12, 1957 – May 28, 2004) was a convicted murderer executed by the U.S. state of South Carolina by means of the electric chair. He was convicted of the murders of Rosa Lee "Dolly" Oakley and Shannon Lynn Mellon. ...

– Executed May 28, 2004, for the murders of Rosa Lee Dolly Oakley and Shannon Mellon. *

Hastings Arthur Wise Hastings Arthur Wise (February 16, 1954 – November 4, 2005) was a convicted American mass murderer who was executed in the U.S. state of South Carolina for killing four former co-workers. Sometimes erroneously referred to by the press as "Arthu ...

– Executed November 4, 2005, for the murders of Charles Griffeth, David Moore, Leonard Filyaw, and Sheryl Wood.

Non-Death Row

Todd Kohlhepp Todd Christopher Kohlhepp ( Sampsell; born March 7, 1971) is an American sex offender and serial killer convicted of murdering seven people in South Carolina between 2003 and 2016. In addition, Kohlhepp kidnapped at least one woman, raped anothe ...

– Serial killer, mass murderer, and rapist who pled guilty to 7 murders, 2 kidnappings, and 1 sexual assault in 2017.

References

External links

South Carolina Department of Corrections
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