A man convicted of the 2004 murder of an off-duty police officer is to be put to death by firing squad Friday in South ...

Your Honor, the defendant’s character, his lack of adaptability, his future dangerousness cry out for the death penalty. The ...

South Carolina is legally required to keep some protocols secret as it prepares to put a man to death by firing squad for the ...

South Carolina plans to execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday for the murder of a police officer, draping a hood over his head and ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has a second prong ... he was genuinely unable to understand that he faced the death penalty and that he could not communicate rationally with his lawyers.

Death penalty cases here in South Carolina have resumed over the last year after a 13-year hiatus, sparking conversations and debate around the act of taking a human life.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's highest court on Monday rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is ...

As South Carolina prepares for its fifth execution in seven months, Rev. Hillary Taylor, executive director of South ...

Editor’s note: South Carolina is scheduled to execute death row inmate Mikal Mahdi on April 11. This is a partial transcript of prosecutor Pascoe’s closing argument seeking the death penalty ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Editor’s note: South Carolina is scheduled to execute death row inmate Mikal ...