Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

He will be the third inmate to die since South Carolina resumed executions last ... He has covered numerous death penalty trials, including those of the Charleston church killer, Dylann Roof ...

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has joined a 24-state coalition filing a brief arguing that taxpayers should not have to pay for sex change operations for prison inmates. The attorney ...

South Carolina's execution chamber. (Provided/SC Department of Corrections) COLUMBIA — Other options are available for a death row inmate who claimed he has a right to know more about the drugs that ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of by electric chair or firing squad later this month.

As of January 1, there were 2,092 death row inmates in the U.S. There are 30 in the state of South Carolina. California has the most inmates on death row at 601. California Governor Gavin Newsom ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

Bowman will be the third man executed in South Carolina since late September. Richard Moore of Spartanburg was put to death on Nov. 1. Freddie “Khalil” Owens, of Greenville, was the first ...

Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, has appealed her conviction for years, claiming the evidence presented against her violated her due process rights. The U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

Oklahoma's only female death row inmate, whose attorneys argue was "sex-shamed" during her husband's murder trial, may have another day in court after a Tuesday Supreme Court ruling. Brenda Andrew ...

A South Carolina man set to die by lethal injection ... but he is concerned that the drug used to put another man to death in November required two large doses more than 11 minutes apart.