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 ...

South Carolina's execution of Stephen Bryant has reignited debate over the use of the firing squad, which is authorized in five U.S. states, and has been used historically as an instrument of fear and ...

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 ...

Alex Murdaugh of Hampton County committed two of South Carolina’s worst killings when he murdered his wife and adult son to cover up a life of fraud. State Attorney General Alan Wilson didn’t seek the ...

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

That Biden commuted those federal sentences at all was somewhat surprising. He had campaigned on ending the death penalty, but once in office he sat on the issue, only turning to it a month after ...

Blacc Zacc could reportedly face the death penalty after being charged with a murder-for-hire plot and RICO conspiracy. On Thursday (Dec. 4), South Carolina news outletThe Statereported that the ...