A death row inmate could be the seventh scheduled for execution in the past 10 months after a Lexington County judge decided ...

Executions, USC football and women's basketball, and conditions at Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center were among the top news stories of 2024 from Columbia, SC.

SC man set for execution Friday is innocent, says witness who helped convict him ... 46, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Friday at a state prison in Columbia, S.C.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has put another execution on hold, two days after temporarily blocking plans for a rare firing squad execution.

COLUMBIA, SC (AP) – South Carolina has put inmate Freddie Owens to death in the state’s first execution in more than a decade. Friday’s execution came after an unintended 13-year pause on ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders is scheduled to die Friday by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months. Stephen Stanko, 57 ...

Mikal Mahdi is set for execution by firing squad on April 11 at 6 p.m. at a Columbia prison for the murder of an off-duty Orangeburg officer. Mahdi would be the second in the state to ever die by ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to be put to death next month want to stop his execution, saying his defense's plea for his life at his original trial "didn't even ...

COLUMBIA — South Carolina can execute condemned inmates by electrocution or firing squad after the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that both options are constitutional. In a split decision, the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP/WCSC) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has issued an execution date for a death row inmate suing the state over a new law forcing inmates to choose between a firing squad or the ...

SC death row inmate Brad Sigmon would be the first person executed in the state since 2011 and the first put to death in the electric chair since 2008.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s highest court, two days after pausing plans for a rare firing squad execution, announced Friday that it was putting another execution on hold as inmates ...