This week, two executions are scheduled: Michael Tanzi in Florida for kidnapping and murder, and Mikal Mahdi in South Carolina, who has requested to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state ...

Columbia, S.C. — South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause because prison officials couldn’t get the drugs needed for ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Corrections can now carry out an execution by firing squad as required by state law. While the state's primary means of execution is by the electric ...

Mikal Mahdi was executed on April 11, becoming the second man in South Carolina to be executed by a three-person firing squad this year after admitting to killing an off-duty police officer in 2004.

Sept. 19 (UPI) --South Carolina death row inmate Freddie Owens will die as scheduled on Friday despite the introduction of an affidavit by his co-defendant proclaiming Owens' innocence, the state's ...