A South Carolina firing squad tried to shoot a convicted cop killer in the heart and missed in a “botched” execution that left him in “excruciating” pain as he bled out, according to an ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina’s second firing squad execution was conscious and likely suffered in extreme pain for as long as a minute after the ...

Along with Sigmon's firing squad death last month, three other South Carolina prisoners have been executed via lethal injection since September. The state now has 26 inmates on its death row.

Exclusive: Robertson has been on death row for 26 years and wants to drop his appeal. He will die by electric chair, firing ...

Along with Sigmon’s firing squad death last month, three other South Carolina prisoners have been executed via lethal injection since September. South Carolina now has 28 inmates on its death row.

South Carolina executed another convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday night, the second such execution in the state. The inmate, Mikal Mahdi, 41, was declared dead shortly after 6 p.m ...

James Robertson, a death row inmate from Rock Hill seeking to expedite his execution, should have a hearing before a court ...

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.

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks.

A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate. Friday's execution will be the second time in the past five weeks the state will have carried out an execution using that method.

A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate. Friday's execution will be the second time in the past five weeks the state will have carried out an execution using that method.