CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Two gubernatorial candidates have both put out support for the death penalty for those convicted of child rape.

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace said in a press release that she has secured an amendment to the House-passed National Defense Authorization Act for the 2026 fiscal year that would allow military prosecutors the power to seek the death penalty for those convicted of child rape.

“With this amendment, we are rooting predators out of our ranks, protecting the innocent, and guaranteeing those who commit the most heinous of crimes pay the highest price,” Mace said

Attorney General Alan Wilson says he has joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general supporting the overturn of a 2008 Supreme Court decision, Kennedy v. Louisiana, that keeps states from issuing the death p

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