Owens is set to be executed by lethal injection in the state's first execution in 13 years. This despite a key witness who ...

Freddie Owens' execution appears to be moving forward despite a sworn statement from the man who testified against him that ...

In South Carolina, the governor has the lone ability to grant clemency and reduce a death sentence to life in prison. However ...

South Carolina is set to execute its first inmate in 13 years after an unintended pause because the state could not obtain ...

Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, is scheduled to die just after 6 p.m. Friday at a Columbia prison. He was convicted of the 1997 killing of a clerk who could not get the safe open at a convenience store in ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections could potentially execute one death row inmate every 35 days — or every five ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed Friday is asking Gov. Henry McMaster to spare his life, something no governor in the state has done since the death penalty was ...

Earlier this year, attorneys representing a group of South Carolina's death row inmates argued before the South Carolina Supreme Court that both electrocution and the firing squad as execution ...

Three Upstate men on South Carolina's death row now know the order in which the state will put them to death. The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Friday on a petition filed by the men and ...