South Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled two execution methods, the firing squad and electric chair, do not violate the state’s constitution. Two years after Gov. Henry McMaster signed legislation making ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court will hear arguments Thursday on whether a newly organized firing squad or the old electric chair are legal ways to execute inmates in the state, ...

March 21 -- When Florida officials executed triple murderer Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis in July 1999, they feared the hefty man's 340-pound-body might crush the decades-old model. So Florida built a new ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Whether South Carolina can start executing prisoners again either with a firing squad or electric chair is now in the hands of a judge after a trial over whether shooting or ...

Lawyers for a group of South Carolina death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the state's Supreme Court that two of the state's forms of execution — the old electric chair method and ...

A South Carolina judge has found that the firing squad and electric chair are prohibited by the state's constitution. In an order filed Tuesday evening, Judge Jocelyn Newman ruled that the South ...

Injection or electrocution? For about 26 years, South Carolina has asked its death row inmates to pick how they die. Most choose lethal injection. A more modern method than the electric chair, lethal ...