COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of by electric chair or firing squad later this month.
The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber.
For the first time in its history, the U. S. Supreme Court has decided to review the use of the electric chair to carry out death sentences. Since its first use in 1890, there have been several ...
Bowman is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. on Friday at a Columbia, South Carolina prison for the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin.
South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate to be put to death since September as the state goes through a ...