The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) said all lanes are blocked on I-85 near the South Carolina and ...

South Carolina restarted its death chamber this year after an unintended 13-year break in executions in part because ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court has not set a date for the state’s next execution after lawyers for four inmates out of ...

South Carolina will not carry out any more executions until at least January, the state Supreme Court ruled in a Thursday ...

Bowman has spent more than half his life on death row. South Carolina was among the busiest states for executions back then, ...

Moore is believed to be the only person in the history of South Carolina’s death penalty to be executed in connection with an ...

No South Carolina governor has granted clemency since executions were reestablished in 1976. Moore's was the 45th execution ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stop the execution of South Carolina inmate Richard Moore, a ...

South Carolina paused executions in 2011 when they could not get the lethal injection drugs required. The state executed Freddie Owens in September, the first death sentence carried out in South ...

Moore's lawyers have asked Republican Governor Henry McMaster for clemency, which no governor in South Carolina has granted in the previous 44 executions in the state since the death penalty ...

And electrocution hasn't been used for U.S. executions in almost five years. South Carolina has put 44 inmates to death since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. In the early ...

Republican Gov. Henry McMaster denied Moore’s request for clemency. No governor in South Carolina has granted in the previous ...