Charleston is surrounded by poopy water. Could a recent Supreme Court decision make it worse?
Some worry a U.S. Supreme Court decision could make Charleston's local waterbodies more vulnerable to fecal contamination, a ...
We’re Really Doing Execution by Firing Squad Again?
Today four states—Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah—list the firing squad in their menu of execution methods. The Idaho Legislature just passed a law making the firing squad its primary ...
South Carolina man called for end of death penalty before execution in final statement
I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad ...
South Carolina man called for end of death penalty in final statement before execution
I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad ...
South Carolina’s school choice program gave ineligible students $1.5 million. That’s bad, right? | Opinion
Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall writes that it now seems clear lawmakers are not just being blasé about the program’s legal ...
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The US killed someone by firing squad for the 1st time in 15 years. Here’s a look at the history
It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...
"Hope is an action": In red states, activists refuse to surrender on reproductive rights
Arkansas law bans abortion at all stages of pregnancy except when necessary to "save the life of a pregnant woman in a ...
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S.C. House members get first look at 2025-26 state budget
Members of the S.C. House on Monday will start consideration of the $14.1 billion state budget, a document they’ve been reviewing for the last week or so.
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South Carolina inmate executed by firing squad for first time in US since 2010
Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in ...
South Carolina executes convicted murderer by firing squad—the first in the U.S. in 15 years
Brad Sigmon, convicted of a brutal 2001 double murder, was executed by firing squad after fighting to avoid the electric chair and lethal injection.
‘Violent and sudden’: Witness to first SC firing squad execution describes what he saw
One of the media witnesses to Friday night’s execution, the first ever in the state to use a firing squad, provided his eyewitness account.