Besides Stephen Bryant, who is scheduled to be executed Friday, 23 people are on South Carolina’s execution list.

Tremane Wood is set to be executed on Nov. 13 for the 2002 killing of 19-year-old Ronnie Wipf, who was stabbed in the heart ...

This year is expected to see capital punishment carried out more often than any other year since 2009. Experts weigh in on ...

But the South Carolina Supreme Court rejected that appeal late Monday writing that even if Bryant’s defense had done more ...

Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution.

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions occur while others try to scale them back or end them entirely. Lawmakers ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are asking the state Supreme Court to halt his execution, arguing that ...

Beyond the appeal, Bryant can also ask the governor to reduce his death sentence to life in prison in a decision that, if made, won't be announced until minutes before the execution is set to start.

A legislative committee is gathering public feedback on the South Carolina Department of Transportation’s efficiency as ...

Stephen Bryant, a South Carolina death row inmate who taunted police with messages written in a victim’s blood, has chosen to die by firing squad on Nov. 14.

Stephen Bryant is currently sitting on death row in South Carolina for the shooting deaths of three men over twenty years ago in 2004. According to the laws of the state, Bryant had a choice in his ...