The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law committee discussed a bill that would allow firing squad executions for death penalty ...

The above shows the execution chamber in the Department of Corrections' Columbia prisons complex, as seen from the witness room. The firing squad chair (left) was added following a 2021 state law that ...

(The Hill) — A new report says that Black inmates sentenced to death by lethal injection suffered a botched procedure at higher rates than white prisoners. In the analysis released this month, ...

Since then, the state has killed seven men in around 15 months. As 2025 comes to a close, South Carolina executed five men on ...

COLUMBIA — Death row inmate Marion Bowman chose to die by lethal injection, while still suing for more information about the drug the state will use to kill him, his attorneys said Friday. The ...

ATMORE, Ala. -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, ...

New Delhi: What’s a more humane way to execute death-row convicts? Lethal injections or death by hanging? It’s a question that confronted the Supreme Court as it heard an eight-year-old petition ...