South Carolina has executed 43 inmates since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. Nearly all inmates have chosen lethal injection. South Carolina hasn't performed an ...

The South Carolina House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that allows for firing squads to carry out death penalty sentences and makes electrocution a more likely means of execution.

If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June—one each in Florida and Mississippi—the same number of ...

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 ...

Proponents such as South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster pitch the death penalty as a way for victims' families to find closure. Yet for the men condemned to die on death row in the state ...

South Carolina allowing inmates to choose from the three execution methods is far from an effort to inflict pain but a sincere attempt at making the death penalty less inhumane, Few wrote.

On Thursday, a federal judge denied Stanko’s attorneys’ appeal to delay his execution over concerns of the effectiveness of lethal injection used on previous inmates. Stanko is set to become the sixth ...

Does South Carolina’s death penalty statute violate the state's constitution as cruel, corporal and unusual punishment? Attorneys representing four condemned inmates and lawyers for the ...