The Supreme Court is listening to a proposal to give convicts on death row an option of choosing lethal injection as an alternative to death by hanging as a mode of execution. On Wednesday, the top ...

South Carolina can execute death row inmates by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair, the state's high court ruled Wednesday, opening the door to restart executions after more than a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Supreme Court of South Carolina has handed down an opinion upholding the constitutionality of the state's methods of carrying out death penalty cases. This comes as four death row ...

An attorney for the first person likely to be executed in South Carolina in 13 years has chosen lethal injection for his method of death. The selection was made Friday by one of his attorneys, Emily ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to die on Tuesday in Louisiana. He was ...

July 31 (UPI) --The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the state could give death row inmates the choice of ending their lives via a firing squad or electric chair. By giving inmates ...

This collection of stories examines how individuals, legal teams and institutions address the process and implications of choosing among three execution methods in South Carolina. A man with two death ...

This is an opinion column. I’ve been watching too many detective shows from England and New Zealand. The death rates in fictional places there are as stunning as the scenery. And the means of death?