A federal judge refused to halt the execution of Stephen Stanko, set for Friday, saying his lawyers provided no evidence that South Carolina’s lethal injection process causes unconstitutional pain.

Officials in South Carolina gave remarks to the media on the firing squad execution of Mikal Mahdi, who was convicted of killing three people and numerous other "spree" crimes in 2004.

While South Carolina law defers to SCDC personnel to design the execution protocols, former state Sen. Dick Harpootlian said he believed it was a given that those selected for the firing squad ...

South Carolina Death Row Death row inmates in South Carolina are given the choice of their method of execution between lethal injection, the electric chair and the firing squad.

A South Carolina man was put to death by a firing squad Friday after being convicted of a 2001 double homicide. The execution of Brad Sigmon, 67, marks the first time since 2010 that a firing ...

South Carolina Death Row Death row inmates in South Carolina are given the choice of their method of execution between lethal injection, the electric chair and the firing squad.

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

A federal judge doesn't plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man's lawyers didn’t have evidence of problems with the state’s lethal ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate will be in federal court Wednesday trying to convince a judge that the state is not properly carrying out lethal injections or firing squad executions ...