A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in ...

The court postponed a potential sixth execution, that of Steven Bixby, who killed two police officers in an Abbeville County ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the murder of Orangeburg police officer James Edward Meyers in Calhoun County, South Carolina, in 2004.

Experience and preparation allowed AP reporter Jeffrey Collins to take news consumers inside the South Carolina death chamber ...

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

Brad Sigmon was executed to exhibit the power of the state over its citizens. By choosing to be put to death by firing squad, Sigmon forced the State of South Carolina to put this power on full and ...

The Asheville Police Department is investigating a stabbing that occurred Wednesday afternoon in the downtown area.

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...