Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be the first U.S. inmate shot to death in an execution in 15 years. Sigmon is scheduled to die ...

South Carolina death row inmate Freddie Owens died by lethal injection on Friday during the state’s first execution in 13 years. Owens, 46, was sentenced to death in 1999 for killing a ...

South Carolina spent about $54,000 in 2022 constructing an area for a firing squad in its death chamber. It won't be far from the electric chair. Bulletproof glass was installed on the witness ...

A South Carolina death row inmate has chosen to be executed by a firing squad, which would make him only the fourth inmate in the U.S. to die by this execution method. Brad Sigmon, 67, who is ...

Exclusive: Robertson has been on death row for 26 years and wants to drop his appeal. He will die by electric chair, firing ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state’s death penalty, which now includes a firing squad as well as lethal injection and the electric chair, is legal.

South Carolina has put 45 inmates to death since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. In the early 2000s, it was carrying out an average of three executions a year.

A South Carolina man scheduled for execution could be spared by attorney's claims that his "sovereign citizenship" beliefs make him insane, thus ineligible for the death penalty.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, there are now 35 inmates on South Carolina's death row. Prosecutors have sent only three new prisoners to death row in the past 13 years.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57 ...

South Carolina Republican lawmakers are considering a bill that would make a person who has an abortion eligible for the death penalty.. The bill, titled the South Carolina Prenatal Equal ...

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be the first U.S. inmate shot to death in an execution in 15 years. Sigmon is scheduled to die ...