Over the last half-century, the political leanings of the Supreme Court, Congress, and the presidency contributed to ...

Exclusive: Rock Hill’s James “Jimmy” Robertson has spent 26 years on South Carolina’s death row after he was convicted in ...

FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair ...

Kevin Fisher writes about the recent onslaught of executions in South Carolina, and one case that undermines the justice ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A firing squad on Friday 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 ...

For the second time in 36 days, a firing squad execution has been carried out in South Carolina. Mikal Mahdi, 42, died Friday ...

A man facing the death penalty for committing two murders was executed by firing squad on Friday, the second such execution ...

A man convicted of murdering a South Carolina police officer was executed by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was shot in the ...

Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair. On March 7, Brad Sigmon was executed in the first U.S. firing squad death in 15 years and only ...

Along with Sigmon’s firing squad death last month, three other South Carolina prisoners have been executed via lethal injection since September. The state now has 26 inmates on its death row.