The Associated Press reported that Richard Gerald Jordan is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State ...

If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June, the same number will have taken place in the first half of ...

A South Carolina man was put to death by lethal injection Friday evening in the state’s sixth execution in nine months.

Stephen Stanko is serving two death sentences for crimes he committed in April 2005 in Horry and Georgetown counties. However, Stanko is specifically being executed for the murder of 74-year-old Henry ...

A federal judge refused to halt the execution of Stephen Stanko, set for Friday, saying his lawyers provided no evidence that South Carolina’s lethal injection process causes unconstitutional pain.

A federal judge doesn't plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man's lawyers didn't have evidence of problems with the state's lethal injection process ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying out executions.

Lawyers for a death row inmate who killed two people on the Grand Strand will be in federal court Wednesday trying to convince a judge that South Carolina is not properly ...

When the three executioners fired their high-powered rifles at him, Mikal Mahdi, who was sentenced to death for the execution-style murder of an Orangeburg police officer, yelled.

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.

Since 1977, only three other inmates have been killed by firing squad, all in Utah. South Carolina shot another man to death in April: Mikal Mahdi, convicted of the 2004 killing of an off-duty public ...

Lawyers who represent the recently executed Mikal Mahdi are alleging that the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) “botched” their client’s firing squad execution, which caused ...