Jeffrey Brian Motts
The state of South Carolina executed Jeffrey Motts, 36, by lethal injection at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia on May 6, 2011. In his final statement he wished his mother and grandmother a happy Mother's Day, apologized to his family, and warned children about drugs. He had wanted to donate a kidney to his ailing sister, but they were not a match, and he had abandoned his appeals. His execution was the first carried out with a new three-drug combination after federal agents seized the state's supply of sodium thiopental. A doctor pronounced him dead about 14 minutes after the drugs appeared to take effect, and the execution appeared to take longer than earlier ones.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: state of South Carolina (the agency that held him); South Carolina Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.
Custody: Serving a sentence.