The South Carolina House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that allows for firing squads to carry out death penalty sentences and makes electrocution a more likely means of execution.

The South Carolina House voted Wednesday to add a firing squad to the state's execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection ... South Carolina last executed a death row inmate 10 years ago ...

Members of the South Carolina State House are considering a bill that would make a woman who has an abortion in the state eligible for the death penalty.. The “South Carolina Prenatal Equal ...

COLUMBIA — Death row inmates in South Carolina would be forced to die by electrocution or firing squad unless lethal injection drugs become available again under legislation approved May 5 in ...

Members of the South Carolina State House are considering a bill that would make a woman who has an abortion in the state eligible for the death penalty.. The “South Carolina Prenatal Equal ...

South Carolina state law currently punishes self-managed abortion with up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $1,000. The new bill would work to define a fetus as any state of development ...

South Carolina Republican lawmakers are considering a bill that would make a person who has an abortion eligible for the death penalty.. The bill, titled the South Carolina Prenatal Equal ...

A handful of South Carolina Republicans plan to reintroduce a bill that would define abortion as homicide — a crime ...