One February night in 1927, somebody smashed Daisy Welling over the head with a brick as she walked across the grounds of the Capitol, on her way home from her job as a telephone operator at the ...

COLUMBIA — South Carolina's Supreme Court heard arguments Feb. 6 over the constitutionality of the firing squad and electric chair as death penalty methods with some justices indicating discomfort ...

Death in the electric chair is like “being burned alive.” The firing squad is like “torture.” Those were the conclusions of a truly unprecedented judicial “two-for.” On Wednesday, a South Carolina ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s highest court will hear arguments Thursday on whether a newly organized firing squad or the old electric chair are legal ways to execute inmates in the state, which ...