Broad River Correctional Institution

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Broad River Correctional Institution
Broad River Correctional Institution
Location4460 Broad River Road
Columbia, South Carolina
Coordinates 34°04′27″N81°05′52″W / 34.07417°N 81.09778°W / 34.07417; -81.09778
Opened1988
Managed by South Carolina Department of Corrections
Warden Michael Stephan

The Broad River Correctional Institution (BRCI) is a South Carolina Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. [1] South Carolina's execution chamber is located in Broad River. [2] The adjacent Kirkland Correctional Institution lies just to its south side.

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The prison opened in 1988. [1] In January 1990, death row inmates were moved from the Central Correctional Institution to Broad River. In 1990, executions began at BRCI. On April 12, 1997, death row inmates were moved to the Lieber Correctional Institution. [2] In September 2017, death row inmates were moved to Kirkland Correctional Institution. On July 11, 2019, death row inmates were moved from Kirkland Correctional Institution to the housing unit that was originally built for them at Broad River. [3]

Notable inmates

Death row

Executed

  • John Arnold – executed on March 6, 1998, for the racially-motivated murder of Betty Gardner
  • Joseph Ernest Atkins – executed on January 23, 1999, for the murders of Karen Patterson and Benjamin F. Atkins
  • Larry Gene Bell – executed on October 4, 1996, for the murders of Sharon Faye Smith and Debra Helmick
  • Marion Bowman Jr. – executed on January 31, 2025, for the 2001 murder of Kandee Martin
  • Joseph Gardner – executed on December 5, 2008, for the murder of Melissa McLauchlin
  • Donald Henry Gaskins – executed on September 6, 1991, for the murder of Rudolph Tyner, a fellow inmate on death row
  • Shawn Paul Humphries – executed on December 2, 2005, for the murder of Dickie Smith
  • Richard Charles Johnson – executed on May 3, 2002, for the murder of Bruce Smalls, a South Carolina police trooper
  • Richard Longworth – executed on April 15, 2005, for the murders of Alex Hopps and James Green
  • Richard Bernard Moore – executed on November 1, 2024, for the murder of convenience store clerk James Mahoney in 1999
  • Freddie Eugene Owens – executed on September 20, 2024, for the murder of convenience store clerk Irene Grainger Graves in 1997
  • John Plath – executed on July 10, 1998, for the racially-motivated murder of Betty Gardner
  • James Earl Reed – executed on June 20, 2008, for the murders of Barbara and Joseph Lafayette
  • David Rocheville – executed on December 3, 1999, for the murders of Alex Hopps and James Green
  • Brad Sigmon – executed by firing squad on March 7, 2025, after being convicted of the 2001 murders of his ex-girlfriend's parents David and Gladys Larke
  • Michael Torrence – executed on September 6, 1996, for the murders of Dennis Lollis, Charles Bush and Cynthia Williams
  • James Neil Tucker – executed on May 28, 2004, for the murders of Rosa Lee Dolly Oakley and Shannon Mellon
  • Hastings Arthur Wise – executed on November 4, 2005, for the murders of Charles Griffeth, David Moore, Leonard Filyaw and Sheryl Wood

Non-death row

References

  1. 1 2 "Broad River Correctional Institution Archived 2010-09-24 at the Wayback Machine ". South Carolina Department of Corrections. Retrieved on August 17, 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Death Row/Capital Punishment Archived 2010-10-07 at the Wayback Machine ". South Carolina Department of Corrections. Retrieved on August 17, 2010.
  3. ↑ Miller, Kiana (11 July 2019). "SCDC moves Death Row from Kirkland to Broad River Correctional Institution". wistv.com. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  4. ↑ "State v. Slocumb - Opinion No. 27877" (PDF). SC Supreme Court. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
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