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.