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- Retired NASA astronaut Charlie Duke speaks to a group of middle school students at the South Carolina State Museum on Friday, April 29, 2022, in Columbia, S.C. Duke, 86, is one of four U.S. astronauts still living who walked on the moon during the Apollo program. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)
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50 years on, Apollo 16 moonwalker still 'excited' by space
By MEG KINNARD - Associated Press
Fri,04/29/22-12:46PM , 503 Reads
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Fifty years after his Apollo 16 mission to the moon, retired NASA astronaut Charlie Duke says he's ready for the U.S. to get back to lunar exploration.
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- This photo provided by the South Carolina Dept. of Corrections shows the state’s death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left. The agency renovated its capital punishment facility to include a metal chair with restraints facing a wall with a rectangular opening several feet away after South Carolina lawmakers added the firing squad to the state’s execution methods in 2021. ( South Carolina Dept. of Corrections via AP)
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EXPLAINER: How South Carolina execution firing squad works
By MEG KINNARD - Associated Press
Sat,04/23/22-7:55AM , 611 Reads
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- In this April 16, 2018, photo, a guard tower stands above the Lee Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison in Bishopville, S.C. South Carolina has given the greenlight to firing-squad executions. The method was codified into state law last year after a decade-long pause in carrying out the death sentence over the state's inability to procure lethal injection drugs. State prison officials said Friday, March 18, 2022, that renovations have been completed on the death chamber in Columbia to allow for a firing squad. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford, File)
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Firing-squad executions get the greenlight in South Carolina
By MEG KINNARD - Associated Press
Fri,03/18/22-4:18PM , 286 Reads
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- Former President Donald Trump arrives at a rally, Saturday, March 12, 2022, in Florence, S.C. Trump has endorsed two Republicans mounting primary challenges to sitting House members who have been critical of him. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)
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Crossing Trump: 2 SC Republicans take different approaches
By MEG KINNARD - Associated Press
Fri,03/11/22-11:18PM , 337 Reads
FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — Under pressure recently to prove her loyalty to Donald Trump, Rep. Nancy Mace traveled to New York and filmed a social media video outside Trump Tower reminding her South Carolina constituents that she was one of the former president's “earliest supporters."
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