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.

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 ...

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 ...

Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the South Carolina Supreme Court that the state's old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments.

FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left. The ...