The Post and Courier
In South Carolina, a woman dies at the hands of a domestic abuser once every twelve days. More South Carolina women have been murdered by former or current lovers than South Carolinian soldiers have been killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
The Post and Courier has conducted a multipart, multimedia investigation, and found that "[a]wash in guns, saddled with ineffective laws and lacking enough shelters for the battered, South Carolina is a state where the deck is stacked against women trapped in the cycle of abuse."