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.

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.

South Carolina will try and start 3-1 for the first time in seven years and bounce back from a heart-breaking, 36-33 defeat to No. 16 LSU last week when it takes on Akron.

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The plane — most of it, at least — returned to Myrtle Beach International Airport less than 10 minutes after takeoff.

The single-engine aircraft, a Diamond DA40, declared an emergency after the door plummeted into the yard of a vacant home.

On Tuesday a Diamond DA40 flying over South Carolina declared an emergency after the door fell off after take off