South Carolina used to carry out an average of three executions a year and had more than 60 inmates on death row when the last execution was carried out in 2011. Since then, successful appeals and ...

A South Carolina death row inmate is being required to choose between a firing squad, lethal injection and the electric chair for his Nov. 1 execution. Richard Moore, 59, was convicted of the ...

On Tuesday, a South Carolina Judge ruled that the state cannot use firing squads or the electric chair to execute death row inmates because it violates the state constitution’s ban on cruel and ...

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.

A South Carolina judge ruled Tuesday that death by firing squad and the electric chair violate the state’s Constitution, calling them cruel and unusual punishment in an order halting the ...

South Carolina wants to bring back the firing squad and the electric chair as the state argues that “painless” deaths are not mandated. Among the 33 prisoners on death row in the Palmetto ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the South Carolina Supreme Court on Tuesday that the state's old electric chair and new firing ...

If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June, the same number will have taken place in the first half of ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders was put to death Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months.

Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith represented dozens of inmates on Death Row and claims he watched an innocent man die - and that ...

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.