Four South Carolina death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued that the electric chair and firing squad execution methods are cruel and unusual punishments.

After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for ...

Bowman is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. on Friday at a Columbia, South Carolina prison for the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin.

Despite spending 23 years on death row, Bowman has maintained his innocence ... Bowman has chosen lethal injection over the firing squad and the electric chair, despite expressing concerns ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of by electric chair or firing squad later this month.

The state is looking to carry out death ... the modern era of the death penalty. South Carolina’s prisons director has until next week to confirm that lethal injection, the electric chair ...