Last week, we learned another hard lesson about executions, namely that there is no foolproof way of killing someone.

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall writes that the state of South Carolina say everything went according to plan, but that’s not ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's highest court on Monday ... in earlier unsuccessful appeals and refused to stop Friday's scheduled execution so further hearings could be held.

A South Carolina firing squad tried ... will last only ten to fifteen seconds,” the justices wrote. “Unless there is a massive botch of the execution in which each member of the firing squad ...

We don’t know what went wrong, but nothing about his execution was humane. The implications are horrifying for anyone facing the same choice as Mikal. South Carolina’s refusal to acknowledge ...

We don’t know what went wrong, but nothing about his execution was humane. The implications are horrifying for anyone facing the same choice as Mikal. South Carolina’s refusal to acknowledge ...

An inmate put to death last month in South ... squad execution was conscious and likely in extreme pain for up to a minute after the bullets missed their target and failed to quickly stop his ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court on ... in earlier unsuccessful appeals and refused to stop Friday’s scheduled execution so further hearings could be held.