Roy Lee Ward, 52, was sentenced to death in 2007 for the July 11, 2001, rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl in the southern ...

Could South Carolina women's basketball coach Dawn Staley leave for a WNBA or NBA coaching job? Signs point to no; here's why ...

Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

South Carolina Death Row. Death row inmates in South Carolina are given the choice of their method of execution between lethal injection, the electric chair and the firing squad.

Lawyers for man executed by firing squad in South Carolina say bullets mostly missed his heart and he suffered in extreme pain for as long as a minute. Skip to content. NOWCAST WYFF News 4 at 5.

A South Carolina firing squad tried to shoot a convicted cop killer in the heart and missed in a “botched” execution that left him in “excruciating” pain as he bled out, according to an ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The legal team for a man who was executed by firing squad in South Carolina claims the process was mishandled by the state. Attorneys representing Mikal Mahdi filed a ...

Along with Sigmon's firing squad death last month, three other South Carolina prisoners have been executed via lethal injection since September. The state now has 26 inmates on its death row.

RELATED: How South Carolina firing squad works. Mahdi groaned two more times about 45 seconds after that. His breaths continued for about 80 seconds before he appeared to take one final gasp.

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago. 24/7 Live Los Angeles Orange County Inland Empire Ventura County California. Welcome, Mickey.

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks.