Hacker News with Generative AI: South Carolina

40 monkeys escape from research facility in South Carolina (news.sky.com)
Forty monkeys have escaped from a research facility in South Carolina.
Police hunt 40 monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina research facility (nbcnews.com)
A police search is underway after 40 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South Carolina on Wednesday night.
Executions of the conceivably innocent are no better than human sacrifice (latimes.com)
The state of South Carolina on Friday strapped down Freddie Owens and injected him with a chemical that’s usually used to euthanize pets. In the days before the execution, a key witness against him admitted testifying falsely at trial to save himself, and said Owens had nothing to do with the 1999 murder for which he was convicted. But that didn’t matter. Owens, also known as Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, was put to death.
How South Carolina pepper farmer Ed Currie created two hottest peppers on Earth (foodandwine.com)
Cicadas are so noisy in South Carolina that residents are calling the police (apnews.com)