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.

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

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

The near-100% increase in executions was driven in large part by Florida, which at 19 executions counted for about 40% of the ...

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

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 ...

Welcome to the world of South Carolina’s death penalty. It’s a world where the worst killers can escape execution, while the hapless can wind up on death row; a world where luck, social status, race, ...

Former President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners, but newly inaugurated President Trump issued ...