The first firing squad execution in over 15 years was carried out last month. It provides a glimpse into how such executions ...

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 ...

A few more details are known about South Carolina's firing squad as the state prepares to carry out its second execution by ...

The Justice Department said Lauren DeLoach, 69, would instruct suppliers to label shipments as "plastic" to avoid seizure ...

South Carolinian Randy Poindexter writes about the effects 16 years of solitary confinement had on him ahead of South ...

Mikal Mahdi, who was convicted of the 2004 murder of an off-duty police officer, is to be put to death by firing squad Friday ...

Sparing Mikal Mahdi would send “a powerful message to all of the other wounded children like him: We will never stop caring ...

South Carolina inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets ...

South Carolina's highest court on Monday rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing ...

The 27-year-old victim was killed when she was shot once in the back, according to the 5th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.

Five South Carolina inmates have been charged with crimes committed while incarcerated, including murder and assaults on ...