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. — The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state's suddenly busy death chamber. The justices on Friday rejected a request from Brad Sigmon ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause because prison officials couldn’t get the drugs needed ...

South Carolina uses two, massive five-gram doses of pentobarbital to execute death row inmates who choose lethal injection. Long hinted at in autopsies, court filings and by attorneys representing the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of by electric chair or firing squad later this month.