This is a photo of the “Silent Witness Roll Call” held on the SC Statehouse grounds today. Today also brought the news that a local women was murdered in Virginia, apparently by a man who had killed several other people as well, and there were two unrelated murder-suicides here in SC in which men killed their wives and then themselves.
According to a report released in September 2006 by the Violence Policy Center, South Carolina ranked sixth in per capita killings of women by men in 2004. South Carolina had 2.13 deaths per 100,000. Nationally, the rate was 1.31 per 100,000.
–Ann Bartow
