The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of South Carolina before 1972, when capital punishment was briefly abolished by the Supreme Court's ruling in Furman v. Georgia. For executions after the restoration of capital punishment by the Supreme Court's ruling in Gregg v. Georgia (1976), see List of people executed in South Carolina.
Historically, all executions in South Carolina were carried out locally by hanging. In March 1912, local hangings were officially replaced with centralized electrocution, with the first electrocution being carried out that August at the state penitentiary in Columbia.