The question is part of an ongoing lawsuit challenging a 2023 expansion to a law protecting companies that provide lethal ...

A South Carolina judge has ruled that John Richard Wood, convicted of killing a state trooper in 2000, is not competent for execution due to severe schizophrenia and delusional beliefs, including that ...

In September 2024, South Carolina executed its first person in more than a decade. Executions in the state had been forced to stop in 2011 due to a nationwide shortage of the drugs used in the lethal ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina senators have added a firing squad to the electric chair as alternatives if the state can’t execute condemned inmates via lethal injection. The Senate then approved the ...

A South Carolina Man Is Executed by Firing Squad for 2004 Killings COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina firing squad has executed a man Friday, the third person to die by that method in the state ...

FLORENCE, S.C. — A federal judge has denied the latest effort to stop two upcoming executions in South Carolina, saying the inmates failed to prove the electric chair is a cruel and unusual form of ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - A judge has ordered the halt of the execution of a man who shot and killed a South Carolina state trooper. In an order filed in Greenville County on April 29, a judge ...

Our state has reached two gruesome milestones — the 50th execution in 50 years of the modern death penalty. Since 1976, when the U.S. Supreme Court approved new death sentencing schemes across the ...