Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by firing squad, the second execution in South Carolina this year using the controversial ...

A pathologist hired by attorneys for death row inmates says a South Carolina man executed by firing squad was conscious and ...

In March, South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon, who was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a ...

Pee Wee Gaskins was the friendliest and most sociable serial killer Dick Harpootlian has ever met. “You like killing, just ...

pursued the most notorious serial killer in South Carolina’s history to the electric chair, promises a release from Harpootlian's publicist. Describing Gaskins as a brazen, depraved backwoods ...

A firing squad 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.

He wore his prison-provided uniform and was secured to a chair inside the execution chamber. “Unless he chose lethal injection or firing squad, he would die in the old South Carolina electric ...

A bill moving in the state House this week would reintroduce the electric chair and firing squads as part of the death ...

Lawmakers in South Carolina adopted the firing squad, and reintroduced the electric chair, as execution methods in 2021. The state’s Supreme Court ruled in July 2024 that the death penalty with ...

South Carolina allows condemned inmates to choose whether to die by lethal injection, electric chair or firing squad. Three in the past year have chosen lethal injection, but the past two opted ...