A federal court judge has appointed an attorney to determine if James Robertson is capable of representing himself; he made a ...

Volunteers, as they are called in death penalty circles, have been around since the death penalty was reinstated 50 years ago ...

An inmate sentenced to death twice in two South Carolina killings has been scheduled to be executed on June 13 ...

Brad Sigmon become the first person in almost 15 years to be executed by a previously banned method earlier this year ...

Mahdi’s legal team filed a complaint with the South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday saying that the execution was botched.

After watching his best friend and four fellow inmates be executed in recent months, a South Carolina death row inmate who ...

Some U.S. politicians insist that the execution methods in their state are relatively painless. But it’s all a farce.

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall writes that the state of South Carolina say everything went according to plan, but that’s not ...

James Robertson was sentenced to die for in the murder of Rock Hill parents. With SC reinstating its death penalty, he now ...

State Reps. Neil Collins (R-District 5) and Justin Bamberg (D-District 90) question whether 'proper standards and protocols' ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who was twice sentenced to die for killing two people nearly two decades ago was ...