The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled ...

A South Carolina death row inmate was executed on Friday, marking the third time in four months the state has carried out the ...

No governor in the previous 45 executions in South Carolina since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976 has given mercy ...

Marion Bowman Jr. was convicted of shooting and killing a young mother, 21 year-old Kandee Martin, in Dorchester County, South Carolina ...

“As Christians, we are told to love our neighbor, and we are supposed to model our lives after Jesus Christ,” Rev. Pigford said. "It comes ultimately down to if Jesus were sitting in the jury box, or ...

ACLU-SC has come into possession of confidential execution-related information whose publication is criminalized under a ...

Bowman is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. on Friday at a Columbia, South Carolina prison for the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin.

Friday, 44-year-old Marion Bowman Jr. is set to die by lethal injection after he was convicted of killing 21-year-old Kandee ...

Bryant appealed the death penalty in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina on the grounds of intellectual disabilities, telling the courts he had fetal alcohol spectrum ...

The death penalty is a legal form of punishment in ... This undated photo released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Marion Bowman Jr. This undated photo released by the ...

South Carolina's Marion Bowman Jr. is set to be the first person executed this year on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to hear his case.