COLUMBIA, S.C.(AP) — Lawyers for a man on South Carolina's death row are trying to stop his execution later this month by arguing the judge who sentenced him to die never got to consider how badly his ...

Near the tail end of 2024, South Carolina executed its first person in more than a decade. The stoppage in the Palmetto State was due to government officials being unable to procure the drugs used in ...

Columbia, South Carolina - A man facing the death penalty for committing two murders was executed by firing squad on Friday, the second such execution in South Carolina this year. Mikal Mahdi (42) was ...

Protesters outside the Broad River Road Correctional Institution, which holds South Carolina’s death chamber, hold up signs protesting the execution of Mikal Mahdi on Friday. Ted Clifford Ted Clifford ...