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

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.

South Carolina’s death penalty has long been plagued by questions of race, class, fairness, cost and more, as statistics maintained by the Death Penalty Information Center and South ...

Sigmon would be the oldest of the 46 South Carolina inmates who have been executed since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. Sigmon's lawyers have one last appeal, asking the ...

The legislation would include the death penalty. 6 MAGA extremists have intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about SC H5357 ...

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 ...