No state has had more executions since September than South Carolina. That’s one reason why opinion editor Matthew T. Hall says it needs to be more transparent about them in his new column.

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method.

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad, the first such execution in the United States since 2010, ...

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method.

The firing squad was added as an option for the death penalty in 2021 following a nearly decade-long effort to restart executions after the South Carolina Department of Corrections ran out of the the ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice ...

The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of his concerns about lethal injection, his lawyer said. By Eduardo Medina Reporting from Columbia, S.C. The state of South Carolina executed a ...

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say more places may turn to.

Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing squad execution was carried out by Utah in 2010.

South Carolina is set to use a firing squad to execute Brad Sigmon, a rarely used killing method in the United States.

A South Carolina convict who brutally killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001 is scheduled to be executed by firing squad on Friday – the first execution of its kind in U.S. in ...