A condemned man was forced to choose how he’ll be put to death in South Carolina. Freddie Owens ended weeks of suspense by leaving the decision to his lawyer, who reluctantly told prison officials...
South Carolina’s Supreme Court has not set a date for the state’s next execution after lawyers for four inmates out of appeals asked them to postpone deaths until after Christmas and New Year’s.
A South Carolina inmate forced to choose his execution method left the decision to his lawyer, who picked lethal injection.
A judge put South Carolina's new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy on hold until the state Supreme Court can review the measure.
The South Carolina Supreme Court has suspended Alex Murdaugh’s law license as the spider web investigation into his family continues to grow.
The son of a South Carolina inmate is asking the governor to save his father from execution. Inmate Richard Moore is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Nov. 1 for the 1999 killing of a conveni...
Nine of South Carolina’s 16 elected prosecutors are asking for changes to how the Legislature elects judges.
Alex Murdaugh, the South Carolina lawyer who was shot Sunday, three months after his wife and son were killed, said Monday that he would be resigning from his law firm and “entering rehab.”
The prominent South Carolina lawyer who was shot along a country road over the weekend, months after he found his wife and son murdered outside their home, is quitting his law firm and will enter r...
South Carolina death row inmate Richard Moore has more than 20 people asking the governor to spare his life in a clemency petition filed just two days before he is scheduled to die by lethal inject...