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SOUTH CAROLINA DEATH SENTENCES FROM 1977-2005 (AS OF 11/10/05) Number of Persons Sentenced to Die: 165 * Executions: 34 Died While on Death Row: 4 ** Resentenced to Life Imprisonment: 51 Resentenced to 30 years 1 Acquitted of Murder on Retrial: 3 *** Previously Sentenced to Death (On State Appeal or Pending Pre-Trial) 16 Under Active Sentence of Death 56 SOUTH CAROLINA EXECUTIONS 1977-2005 SOUTH CAROLINA'S DEATH ROW - As of November 10, 2005 SOUTH CAROLINA DEATH SENTENCED INMATES 1977-2005 South Carolina Does Not Use the Death Penalty Nearly Enough      to Even Pretend it is Fair. * Four men (Ronald Woomer, Larry Gene Bell, James Tucker, and Thomas Ivey) received death    sentences in two different cases, but are counted only once as an admission to death row. ** Deaths on Row were:        Rudolph Tyner (murdered, 1982);        Wesley Copeland (heart attack, 1985),        Floyd West (heart attack, 1988);        George Williams (AIDS, 1997) *** Acquittals (Michael Linder, Jesse Keith Brown, and Warren Manning)