A South Carolina man was sentenced to life in prison Monday for gunning down a New Mexico state police officer who had ...

Kevin Fisher writes about the recent onslaught of executions in South Carolina, and one case that undermines the justice ...

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 in 2006.

South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they ...

Mikal Mahdi’s execution came about a month after the first person in state history was killed in such a manner. Before that, ...

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago. It is the second time the ...

A South Carolina man on death row prepares to be put to death by firing squad, as his lawyer says the case is a matter of ...

Friday night another South Carolina inmate died by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi was on death row for killing an Orangeburg ...

He was just the fifth person in the United States executed by firing squad since 1976, when the U.S. Supreme Court ...

South Carolina is one of five states that allow ... at the time spent less than 30 minutes arguing against the death penalty. It "didn’t even span the length of a 'Law & Order' episode and ...

Dylann Roof, the man who killed nine people at a church in Charleston, S.C., filed a motion to vacate his death penalty ...