COLUMBIA, S.C.(AP) — A South Carolina inmate who spent 42 years on death row has died of natural causes at a prison hospital, according to the state Department of Corrections. Fred Singleton, 81, was ...

Protesters outside the Broad River Road Correctional Institution, which holds South Carolina’s death chamber, hold up signs protesting the execution of Mikal Mahdi on Friday. Ted Clifford Ted Clifford ...

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 ...

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...

A South Carolina man feasted on an enormous meal, including German chocolate cake, before he was executed by a firing squad on Friday. Stephen Bryant, 44, was put to death by three volunteer prison ...

In September 2024, South Carolina executed its first person in more than a decade. Executions in the state had been forced to stop in 2011 due to a nationwide shortage of the drugs used in the lethal ...