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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In South Carolina, the electric chair has been a form of capital punishment for decades, but rarely is it used; inmates have chosen to die by electrocution only seven times since 1976. The 2021 law ...

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 ...

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

This collection of columns examines the debate in South Carolina over methods of execution for death row inmates. The articles discuss the involvement of the Newman family, with Clifton presiding over ...

A South Carolina man on death row for murder has chosen to be executed by a firing squad. Inmate Brad Sigmon is scheduled to die March 7, and will be the first person to be executed in the U.S. using ...

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