Some 46 prisoners have been executed by lethal injection and electrocution in South Carolina since 1985. Brad Sigmon’s ...

A Jasper County inmate is accused of murdering his cellmate. The South Carolina Department of Corrections recently announced that Javontay Savon Rogers, 31, has been charged in connection to the death ...

Protesters demonstrated outside South Carolina's state prison in Columbia ahead of ... "Brad spent hours kneeling on the floor of his cell so he could write letters to the family and friends ...

South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP ... Shortly before his execution, Sigmon will be moved to an individual cell closer to where his life will end. Just before 6 p.m., the warden ...

An inmate at the Broad River Correctional Institution was found dead in his cell, according to the South Carolina Department ...

Javontay Savon Rogers, 31, is accused of using a nylon strap to strangle 34-year-old Patrick Massey to death Dec. 10 inside their shared cell ... the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and ...

South Carolina plans to execute its first prisoner by firing squad on March 7 inside the same death chamber it's used for ...