Judge Robert Hood ruled that Gary Terry, convicted of rape and murder, does not have an intellectual disability, potentially ...

The winning numbers in Friday's drawing of the "South Carolina Palmetto Cash 5" game were: ...

A death row inmate could be the seventh scheduled for execution in the past 10 months after a Lexington County judge decided ...

Dylann Roof wanted to start a race war, but I feel like there is already such a war going on, and it plays out in our ...

Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state ...

The Associated Press reported that Richard Gerald Jordan is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State ...

Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed Wednesday nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom scheme.

The shooter, Dylann Roof, then 22, sat in the Bible study group with his victims for about an hour in the basement of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, the oldest one in the south, ...

South Carolina’s electric chair is located in Columbia at the Broad River Correctional Institute. The state has not carried out an execution since May 2011. The death penalty is on hold while ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced dead at ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced dead at ...