COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's highest court on Monday ... in earlier unsuccessful appeals and refused to stop Friday's scheduled execution so further hearings could be held.

A South Carolina firing squad tried ... will last only ten to fifteen seconds,” the justices wrote. “Unless there is a massive botch of the execution in which each member of the firing squad ...

An inmate put to death last month in South ... squad execution was conscious and likely in extreme pain for up to a minute after the bullets missed their target and failed to quickly stop his ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court on ... in earlier unsuccessful appeals and refused to stop Friday’s scheduled execution so further hearings could be held.