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A church shooting sparked debate over racial tensions in 2015. Then more racial attacks continued. Church members said the violence must stop.

To commemorate the seventh anniversary of the mass shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church, faith leaders called for a year-long Bible study lesson

After granting stays for two executions, the South Carolina Supreme Court has given a circuit court judge in Richland County 90 days to hear a civil lawsuit filed by four death row inmates who claim a new firing squad and the century old electric chair violate the state's ban on cruel, corporal and unusual punishment.

Carl Norquist is a producer and writer for In the Moment. An EMMY-winning producer, Carl previously worked for KTIV News 4 in Sioux City, IA. Carl is a Minnesota native and graduate of Augustana University with majors in Art and English.

On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist gunman killed nine people during a bible study at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Reverend Sharon Risher was working as a hospital chaplain when she learned her mother and two cousins were among the dead.

Death penalty opponents will gather outside the Supreme Court to call for the passage of the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act.

Not all impacted by mass shootings respond the same way. Here we have two pastors impacted by major mass shootings who responded differently.

The 2021 ceremony recognized the magazine’s coverage of the pandemic and the political upheaval of the past year.

Overturn Dylann Roof’s death sentence — for me, not for him

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Its been more than a decade since Randy Gardners brother was the last U.S. inmate executed by firing squad, years the Utah man says have been filled with nightmares about what he describes as his brothers "gruesome" death. Now, Gardner is among advocates spending time in South Carolina, speaking out about why he feels the method shouldnt be used here. Gardner didnt witness the 2010 execution of his brother, Ronnie Lee Gardner, condemned to die for shooting a man to death...