Since then, the state has killed seven men in around 15 months. As 2025 comes to a close, South Carolina executed five men on ...

Since executions resumed in Sept. 2024, seven men have been executed by lethal injection and firing squad in South Carolina.

At least four of the 37 men whose sentences were commuted last year could face the death penalty at the state level after a ...

A report from the Death Penalty Information Center shows Alabama played a key role in executions and new death sentences.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A local prosecutor in South Carolina said Tuesday he will seek the death penalty against a man whose federal death sentence for killing two bank employees in a robbery was ...

Alex Murdaugh of Hampton County committed two of South Carolina’s worst killings when he murdered his wife and adult son to cover up a life of fraud. State Attorney General Alan Wilson didn’t seek the ...

Fewer Americans support capital punishment. Fewer courts are handing out death sentences. And we’ve got way more executions ...

This undated image provided by the Horry County Jail shows Brandon Council. (Horry County Jail via AP) (Uncredited, Horry County Jail) COLUMBIA, S.C. – A local prosecutor in South Carolina said ...