South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal injection drugs.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled execution for a 2001 killing of a friend found dead in her burning car.

Among the governor's proposals are cuts in personal income taxes, increases in teacher and law enforcement salaries, and funding for school choice

The woman recently convicted of murder in the 2022 killing of her Nacho Hippo coworker in North Myrtle Beach arrived at a state facility on Thursday, the South

Issac Bailey has a message for the South Carolina Department of Corrections employees who will execute Bowman: It’s a premeditated and unnecessary killing.

Most recently, he served as the deputy director of programs and services for the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC). It's that experience at the Corrections Department--he joked to ...

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections, viewing chairs are placed in the witness room of the execution chamber in the Broad River Correctional ...

A federal district court denied a motion from a death row inmate to halt his execution which is set for Friday night.

A Gilbert man convicted of killing a 6-year-old girl in a DUI crash could be pardoned of his felony charges on Wednesday. He’s set to go before the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.

Mr. Bowman and his legal team still have significant concerns about the quality of the lethal injection drugs used in South Carolina executions because the Department of Corrections continues to refuse to provide any basic information about the drugs ...

ACLU-SC has come into possession of confidential execution-related information whose publication is criminalized under a South Carolina sweeping execution secrecy law.

Governor Henry McMaster announced the nomination of a new director of the South Carolina Department of Probations, Pardons and Parole Servi