Attorneys for the inmates are reportedly to ask the state Supreme Court to halt executions and issue any more death warrants after New Year’s Day

South Carolina's Supreme Court has not set a date for the state's next execution after lawyers for four inmates out of appeals asked them to postpone deaths until after Christmas and New Year's. The justices typically issue notices on Fridays because it gives the maximum amount of time of 28 days to prepare for the execution which by law is to be carried out on the “fourth Friday after the receipt of such notice.

South Carolina has executed Richard Moore, the second death row inmate to die at the hands of the state this year.

South Carolina death row inmate Richard Moore was executed by lethal injection on Nov. 1. He was convicted of the 1999 murder of store clerk James Mahoney.

Lawyers for four S.C. inmates asked justices to postpone executions until after Christmas and New Year’s. The top court may be doing that.