A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in South Carolina since ...

Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice over concerns that it might cause unnecessary pain and suffering.

I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad ...

Capital punishment has been a feature of America since colonial times and various methods have been used to kill convicts – ...

Shooting prisoners to death has consequences for the reputation of the state,” a national death penalty expert said.

South Carolina sees first firing squad execution in modern history The execution of a death row inmate in South Carolina made national news last week. Brad Keith Sigmon on Friday for the beating ...

Biden only left three mass killers on death row: Dylann Roof, who killed nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who set off the bombs at the Boston Marathon; and ...

A witness has described what he saw after watching a death row inmate executed using a ... He has been witnessing executions in South Carolina for the Associated Press for 21 years, seeing 11 ...

As South Carolina prepared to carry out the first execution by firing squad in the U.S. since 2010, Catholic activists ...

Experience and preparation allowed AP reporter Jeffrey Collins to take news consumers inside the South Carolina death chamber ...

As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...