SC Supreme Court to Decide How Much Stays Secret About Executions • SC Daily Gazette

SC Supreme Court hears arguments against secrecy laws around death penalty

The South Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could allow information about the state’s execution methods to be made public. The state argues that much of the information was public already.

SC Supreme Court to decide how much stays secret about executions • SC Daily Gazette

At a hearing before South Carolina Supreme Court justices in Columbia on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union and the state agreed on an interpretation of state law that would exclude publicly available information from a secrecy law. (File photo by Mary Ann Chastain / Special to the SC Daily Gazette)COLUMBIA — How much a state secrecy law really hides from the public will be up to the state Supreme Court, whi…