The US has carried out 25 executions this year, with 60% concentrated in Florida, Texas, and South Carolina, while new death ...

Melissa Lucio's delayed execution sparks debate over death penalty in the U.S. 08:37 South Carolina can execute death row inmates by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair, the state ...

The South Carolina House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that allows for firing squads to carry out death penalty sentences and makes electrocution a more likely means of execution.

South Carolina has executed 43 inmates since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. Nearly all inmates have chosen lethal injection since it became an option in 1995.

The South Carolina Death Penalty Resource Center, which after several name changes is now known as Justice 360, was established in 1989 with funding from the federal government.

As South Carolina prepares for its fifth execution in seven months, Rev. Hillary Taylor, executive director of South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, writes that there's another ...

If Owens’s sentence is carried out as scheduled, he will be the 44th South Carolinian put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, and the first since Jeffrey ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled the state's death penalty is legal, opening the door to restart executions in a state that hasn’t put an inmate to death since 2011.

Does South Carolina’s death penalty statute violate the state's constitution as cruel, corporal and unusual punishment? Attorneys representing four condemned inmates and lawyers for the South ...

South Carolina Republican lawmakers are considering a bill that would make a person who has an abortion eligible for the death penalty.. The bill, titled the South Carolina Prenatal Equal ...

Death Penalty for Abortions Included in Proposed South Carolina Law — But It Likely Won't Pass A South Carolina lawmaker has brought back an unpopular bill that would treat abortion as homicide ...