South Carolina’s attorney general is supporting a federal proposal that would speed up the appeals process for death row inmates. The proposed rule change would make it easier for states ...

Exclusive: James “Jimmy” Robertson has been on South Carolina’s death row since 1999 for killing his parents with a ball bat and hammer.

Bayan Aleksey has been on SC’s death row since 1998, the year he was convicted and sentenced to death for fatally shooting a state trooper on Interstate 95 a year ...

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 inmate was escorted into ...

A judge ruled that a South Carolina inmate who killed a state trooper is incompetent to be executed due to mental illness delusions, citing mental health experts.

John Richard Wood, 56, was set to be executed after serving more than 25 years for killing a state trooper in South Carolina, US.

A judge has stopped South Carolina from executing a prisoner for now, finding that his schizophrenia prevents him from understanding why he faces death. Wood remains under a death sentence, but the ...

An SC court judge ruled an inmate cannot be executed due to mental illness. Fernando Gregory Dreamstime/TNS A South Carolina death row inmate who believes he has died three times and is immortal ...

The death row inmate has avoided execution due to mental health reasons as he believes he has ‘wings’ and was gifted immortality to win his ‘fight’ against the justice system ...