When South Carolina executes a man for the first time in more than a decade this Friday, the state will use the most common method of execution in the United States. Convicted murderer Freddie Owens ...

COLUMBIA — Freddie Owens was executed Friday evening by lethal injection, after his attorneys’ last-chance appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court failed to stop it. Owens was pronounced dead at 6:55 p.m., ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - South Carolina’s highest court apparently is not ready to allow the state to restart executions after more than 12 years until they hear more arguments about newly ...

COLUMBIA — South Carolina's highest court apparently is not ready to allow the state to restart executions after more than 12 years until they hear more arguments about newly obtained lethal injection ...

In an effort to resume executions in South Carolina after over a decade, the state Department of Corrections has notified the state Supreme Court that the agency now has the drugs to carry out lethal ...

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 the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Lawyers for six death row inmates out of appeals in South Carolina are asking the state Supreme Court to give full consideration to the state’s new lethal injection rules as well ...