COLUMBIA, S.C.(AP) — A South Carolina inmate who spent 42 years on death row has died of natural causes at a prison hospital, according to the state Department of Corrections. Fred Singleton, 81, was ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while leaving taunting messages for police in ...

Near the tail end of 2024, South Carolina executed its first person in more than a decade. The stoppage in the Palmetto State was due to government officials being unable to procure the drugs used in ...

COLUMBIA — A Sumter County man who killed three during a crime spree 21 years ago became the third person executed in South Carolina by firing squad. Stephen Bryant was the fifth person executed in ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — South Carolina currently has 26 inmates on death row, including Stephen Stanko, whose death warrant was issued Friday by the state Supreme Court. Stanko, who is set to be ...

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 ...

South Carolina’s highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while leaving taunting messages for police in the blood of one ...

About 20 people gathered outside the gates of the prison complex in Columbia, S.C., ahead of the execution of Stephen Bryant on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (Photo by Jessica Holdman/SC Daily Gazette) ...

FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.