The court postponed a potential sixth execution, that of Steven Bixby, who killed two police officers in an Abbeville County ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to be put to death next month want to stop his execution saying ...

Brad Keith Sigmon called for an end to the death penalty before he was executed by firing squad in South Carolina on Friday.

The capital punishment sentence of Marion Bowman Junior was carried out tonight pursuant to the order of the South Carolina ...

South Carolina has scheduled the execution of an inmate convicted of fatally shooting an off-duty police officer, which would make him the fifth person the state put to death since it resumed ...

The capital punishment sentence of Marion Bowman Junior was carried out tonight pursuant to the order of the South Carolina Supreme Court and in accordance with state law. South Carolina has never ...

Richard Moore was executed on Nov. 1 and Marion Bowman Jr. on Jan. 31. Going forward the court will allow an execution every five weeks. South Carolina now has 28 inmates on its death row ...

Lawyers for Sigmon asked to delay his execution date earlier this month because they wanted to learn if the prisoner in South Carolina's previous execution, Marion Bowman, was given two doses of ...