A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s ...

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

Amid controversy over South Carolina’s execution methods, advocacy groups served petitions to the governor to spare the life ...

Editor’s note: South Carolina is scheduled to execute death row inmate Mikal Mahdi on April 11. This is a partial transcript of prosecutor Pascoe’s closing argument seeking the death penalty ...

Of the tens of thousands of violent crimes that happen each year in South Carolina, only a handful end with life sentences. And it’s even more rare for the death penalty to be sought.

A prayer vigil for life is scheduled to take place in Columbia a few hours before South Carolina death row inmate Stephen ...

Stephen Stanko was convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend as he raped her teenage daughter, then shooting a friend and cleaning out his bank account.

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 ...

A South Carolina man convicted of a 2005 double murder was put to death by lethal injection on Friday, the fourth execution ...