New Name, Same Mission

The Death Penalty Resource & Defense Center, serving South Carolina since 1988 has been re-named to JUSTICE 360. We strive for greater visibility and involvement in the community conversation regarding criminal justice reform throughout South Carolina.

The stakes are high:

• It is estimated that 4 out of every 100 death row inmates are innocent.
• Over 70% of South Carolina’s current Death Row population suffers from a serious Mental Illness.
• South Carolina has the 7^th highest per capita execution rate in the country.
• Of all death sentences imposed in South Carolina, over 60% have been reversed during the appellate process.

Justice 360 is a non-profit organization that provides death row clients with quality legal representation. Through our work in four key areas of the criminal justice system, we hope to advocate for a more holistic, more humane administration of this most severe of punishments.

• Direct Representation – attorneys on our staff directly represent death row inmates at all levels of the trial process
• Resources & Training – serves as a resource center for attorneys appointed to capital cases & to pro bono attorneys who assist them
• Policy Reform – we advocate for specific reforms aimed at addressing systemic flaws in the capital punishment process
• Public Education – provide services & author materials expressly designed to help non-lawyers understand the societal & judicial issues surrounding South Carolina’s death penalty.

Contact Justice 360 for comment and expertise on criminal justice reform, capital punishment, criminal defense, non-profit advocacy, executions in South Carolina, the history of the death penalty in South Carolina and legislative activity pertaining to capital punishment in our state.

The mission of Justice 360 is to promote fairness, reliability and transparency in the criminal justice system for people facing the death penalty in South Carolina.