A judge has stopped South Carolina from executing a prisoner for now, finding that his schizophrenia prevents him from ...

A judge ruled that a South Carolina inmate who killed a state trooper is incompetent to be executed due to mental illness ...

Brad Sigmon, the first U.S. inmate to be put to death by firing squad in 15 years, has been executed for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend’s parents. The 67-year-old inmate was escorted into ...

John Wood, a death row prisoner in South Carolina, was ruled not competent for execution due to severe schizophrenia, ...

The death row inmate has avoided execution due to mental health reasons as he believes he has ‘wings’ and was gifted ...

A South Carolina judge has ruled that a death row inmate, convicted of killing a state trooper in 2000, is not competent to ...

A South Carolina firing squad has executed a man Friday, the third person to die by that method in the state this year. Three prison employees, all with live ammunition, volunteered to carry out the ...

John Richard Wood was sentenced to death in January 2002.

COLUMBIA, S.C.(AP) — Lawyers for a man on South Carolina's death row are trying to stop his execution later this month by arguing the judge who sentenced him to die never got to consider how badly his ...

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. The execution of ...

In South Carolina, which on Friday will execute its first inmate since 2011, 43 convicted murderers have been executed by the state since the death penalty was reinstated here in 1976. Few death row ...