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 ...

The South Carolina House voted Wednesday, May 5, to add a firing squad to the state’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs—a measure meant to jump-start executions in a state that ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — South Carolina currently has 26 inmates on death row, including Stephen Stanko, whose death warrant was issued Friday by the state Supreme Court. Stanko, who is set to be ...

A federal district court denied a motion from a death row inmate to halt his execution which is set for Friday night.

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 ...