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.

It was driven home when South Carolina released the results ... s leading scholar about methods of execution, raised eyebrows when she called the justice’s 2015 assessment of the firing squad ...

Two South Carolina legislators are seeking an investigation into the state’s firing squad execution last month ...

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.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's highest court on Monday rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad later this week for the ambush killing of ...