Melissa Lucio's delayed execution sparks debate over death penalty in the U.S. 08:37 South Carolina can execute death row inmates by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair, the state ...

As South Carolina prepares for its fifth execution in seven months, Rev. Hillary Taylor, executive director of South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, writes that there's another ...

Death Penalty for Abortions Included in Proposed South Carolina Law — But It Likely Won't Pass A South Carolina lawmaker has brought back an unpopular bill that would treat abortion as homicide ...

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

Of the tens of thousands of violent crimes that occur each year in South Carolina, only a handful end with life sentences. And it’s even more rare for the death penalty to be handed down.

A South Carolina congressman is warning of threats that face Americans “anywhere” after four years of an open border ...

Dawn Staley is the best women's basketball coach in college basketball - and perhaps the entire world. The former University ...

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

A governor has not spared a death row inmate's life in the previous 48 executions since South Carolina reinstated the death penalty about 50 years ago. What will happen to Stanko in the death chamber ...

The lawyer, Kimberly Stevens, represents people charged in federal capital cases, where they could face the death penalty, ...

The federal case against a Stoughton cop accused of grooming, impregnating and then killing a Canton woman named Sandra ...

Beaufort County police say the man opened fire on his ex-girlfriend’s car as she drove her 6-year-old child to school.