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 ...

The autopsy notes two bullet wounds even though there were three shooters, and a forensic expert says the misfires likely ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT As the death penalty continues to be a point of heated debate 60 years since the last person was ...

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 ...

Inmates on Death Row all have the same destination, but some methods are far more painful and torturous than others.

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