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

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

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 ...

IN OTHER NEWS, WE HAVE INFORMATION NOW ON THE SOUTH CAROLINA ... execution was conscious and likely suffered in extreme pain for as long as a minute after the bullets, meant to quickly stop ...

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.

South Carolina's Supreme Court has rejected Mikal Mahdi's final appeal, leaving him scheduled to be executed by firing squad later this week. Mahdi was convicted of the ambush killing of an off ...