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 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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Members of the South Carolina State House are considering a bill that would make a woman who has an abortion in the state eligible for the death penalty.. The “South Carolina Prenatal Equal ...

A South Carolina legislator proposed the death penalty as punishment for women who get abortions. The new bill, still in the legislature, would equate abortion to homicide.

South Carolina plans to execute death row inmate Mikal Mahdi April 11. Here’s how Solicitor David Pascoe argued for the death penalty.

South Carolina Republicans propose death penalty for women getting abortions State Rep. Rob Harris, who sponsored the South Carolina Pre-Natal Equal Protection Act, said the bill's intent is to ...

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.