Two South Carolina legislators are seeking an investigation into the state’s firing squad execution last month.

Five states − South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and Idaho − have legalized firing squads as an execution method but Mahdi's is only the fifth such execution since 1977. A firing ...

Stephen Stanko is hoping a South Carolina federal judge will pause his upcoming execution following claims by his attorneys ...

Inmate Stephen Stanko was leaning toward a death by firing squad but changed his mind when he couldn't get more details about ...

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected a request from an inmate set to die next month for more information on the firing squad after concerns about the last execution by bullets in April.

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying ...

A federal judge refused to halt the execution of Stephen Stanko, set for Friday, saying his lawyers provided no evidence that ...

A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina’s second firing squad execution was conscious and likely suffered in extreme pain for as long as a minute after the bullets, meant to ...

Did a South Carolina firing squad deliberately try to miss a man's heart during an execution last month to prolong his death?

Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. local time on Friday, June 13, according to a statement released by the ...

Stephen Stanko was convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend as he raped her teenage daughter, then shooting a friend and ...