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South Carolina will not carry out any more executions until at least January, the state Supreme Court ruled in a Thursday ...

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A trial date for February will be set and the prosecutor will seek a sentence of life without the possibility of parole if a ...

In addition to a murder charge, Miguel Enrique Salguero-Olivares is charged with first-degree burglary, rape and first-degree ...