The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice ...

The man sentenced to death for the killing of an off-duty Orangeburg law enforcement officer in 2004 has learned the date of ...

A South Carolina man who had been on death row for 20 years for the murder of two people was executed by firing squad Friday.

A South Carolina man will be put to death next month after spending nearly 20 years on death row. 41-year-old Mikal D. Mahdi ...

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in the state since the death penalty resumed last fall.

Mahdi was convicted of the murder of off-duty Orangeburg County Public Safety Captain James Myers in 2004. The ...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill on Wednesday making death by firing squad the preferred method for executions, and death ...

Double murderer Brad Sigmon was put to death in South Carolina on Friday by a three-man firing squad for killing William and ...

If Sigmon's execution moves forward, he will become the first inmate in South Carolina executed by firing squad in modern history and the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad ...

A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the ...