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

Alex Bowman will pay tribute to the 200th NASCAR Cup Series victory for Hendrick Motorsports at Darlington, as part of ...

No state has had more executions since September than South Carolina. That’s one reason why opinion editor Matthew T. Hall ...

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

Attorneys for a man awaiting execution in South Carolina contend an autopsy report for Marion Bowman, the most-recent inmate put to death, revealed that blood and fluid in his lungs caused death ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing squad execution was carried out by Utah in 2010.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of condemned man Brad Sigmon, clearing the way for Friday’s firing squad execution ...

The filing follows the release of Marion Bowman Jr.'s autopsy report, which shows he was administered twice the amount of pentobarbital that the South Carolina Department of Corrections sworn in ...

A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method.

South Carolina has said its methods are similar to other states that use one dose of pentobarbital. In Georgia and Tennessee, only one 5 gram dose of the drug is scheduled for the start of the ...