COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - South Carolina’s highest court apparently is not ready to allow the state to restart executions after more than 12 years until they hear more arguments about newly ...

When South Carolina executes a man for the first time in more than a decade this Friday, the state will use the most common method of execution in the United States. Convicted murderer Freddie Owens ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WSPA) — South Carolina may be one step closer to resuming executions of inmates sentenced to death. Wednesday afternoon, the South Carolina House of Representatives voted 71-25 to give ...

In an effort to resume executions in South Carolina after over a decade, the state Department of Corrections has notified the state Supreme Court that the agency now has the drugs to carry out lethal ...

South Carolina’s prisons director and a Republican lawmaker say they will renew their push next year to pass a law that would shield the identities of drug companies selling the state ingredients for ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - More than 30 inmates sit on death row in South Carolina, but for the time being, the state has no way to legally carry out their executions. The state hasn’t carried out a ...