A South Carolina firing squad has executed a man Friday, the third person to die by that method in the state this year. Three prison employees, all with live ammunition, volunteered to carry out the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina's highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while leaving taunting messages for police in ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Near the tail end of 2024, South Carolina executed its first person in more than a decade. The stoppage in the Palmetto State was due to government officials being unable to ...

COLUMBIA — A Sumter County man who killed three during a crime spree 21 years ago became the third person executed in South Carolina by firing squad. Stephen Bryant was the fifth person executed in ...

FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are asking the state Supreme Court to halt his execution, arguing that the judge who sentenced him never considered the extent of his brain damage caused ...

Brad Sigmon, the first U.S. inmate to be put to death by firing squad in 15 years, has been executed for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend’s parents. The 67-year-old was escorted into South ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while leaving taunting messages for police ...