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) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Noel Nickel and Ron Kaz sit under an umbrella amidst the weather to protest the execution of Mikal Mahdi at the SC Department of Corrections, Friday, April 11, 2025, in Columbia.

The State Columbia, SC. SC firing squad execution was a ‘massive botch,’ inmate’s attorney says. Story by Zak Koeske • 4w.

Mikal Mahdi is scheduled for execution Friday, April 11, by a South Carolina Department of Corrections firing squad. Mahdi is set to be executed at 6 p.m. at the Broad River Road Correctional ...

Columbia, SC (AP) — South Carolina has set a Sept. 20 date to put inmate Freddie Eugene Owens to death in what would be the state's first execution in more than 13 years.