COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's highest court on Monday ... in earlier unsuccessful appeals and refused to stop Friday's scheduled execution so further hearings could be held.

It was driven home when South Carolina released the results ... s leading scholar about methods of execution, raised eyebrows when she called the justice’s 2015 assessment of the firing squad ...

A South Carolina firing squad tried ... will last only ten to fifteen seconds,” the justices wrote. “Unless there is a massive botch of the execution in which each member of the firing squad ...

Two South Carolina legislators are seeking an investigation into the state’s firing squad execution last month ... the integrity of South Carolina's justice system and public confidence in ...

We don’t know what went wrong, but nothing about his execution was humane. The implications are horrifying for anyone facing the same choice as Mikal. South Carolina’s refusal to acknowledge ...

An inmate put to death last month in South ... squad execution was conscious and likely in extreme pain for up to a minute after the bullets missed their target and failed to quickly stop his ...

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

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two South Carolina legislators have requested an investigation into the state’s firing squad execution last ... of South Carolina’s justice system and public confidence ...