The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled execution for a 2001 killing of a friend found dead in her burning car.

Issac Bailey has a message for the South Carolina Department of Corrections employees who will execute Bowman: It’s a premeditated and unnecessary killing.

Most recently, he served as the deputy director of programs and services for the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC). It's that experience at the Corrections Department--he joked to ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more information about the drug that will kill him.

ACLU-SC has come into possession of confidential execution-related information whose publication is criminalized under a South Carolina sweeping execution secrecy law.

A federal district court denied a motion from a death row inmate to halt his execution which is set for Friday night.

A Gilbert man convicted of killing a 6-year-old girl in a DUI crash could be pardoned of his felony charges on Wednesday. He’s set to go before the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.

Mr. Bowman and his legal team still have significant concerns about the quality of the lethal injection drugs used in South Carolina executions because the Department of Corrections continues to refuse to provide any basic information about the drugs ...

Governor Henry McMaster announced the nomination of a new director of the South Carolina Department of Probations, Pardons and Parole Servi

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections, viewing chairs are placed in the witness room of the execution chamber in the Broad River Correctional ...

Among the governor's proposals are cuts in personal income taxes, increases in teacher and law enforcement salaries, and funding for school choice