A federal judge refused to halt the execution of Stephen Stanko, set for Friday, saying his lawyers provided no evidence that South Carolina’s lethal injection process causes unconstitutional pain.

Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. He was executed for shooting a friend and then cleaning out his bank account in Horry County in 2005.

A former inmate and an ex-correctional officer are both behind bars for smuggling drugs into a South Carolina prison.

David Nicholas Smith, 44, an inmate at the Wateree, was part of a work crew on Wateree's farm and died in an accident involving a dump truck.

An inmate died at a South Carolina prison Friday night, and his death is being investigated as suspicious, according to the the state Department of Corrections.

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying out executions. South Carolina uses either lethal injection ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday refused to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days, saying the prisoner’s lawyers didn’t have eviden… ...

South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko has chosen to die by lethal injection after his lawyers say he is troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the last person in the state ...

Georgia Southern transfer defensive lineman Troy Pikes announced his commitment to Shane Beamer and South Carolina on social media Tuesday. Pikes will join the Gamecocks after two years with the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko on Friday chose to die by lethal injection after his lawyers said he was troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of ...