A man who was found hanging in a cell at Winchester Prison abruptly stopped taking his psychiatric medication soon before he died, an inquest ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more ...

A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection ...

The above shows the space in the Department of Corrections' Columbia prisons ... of killing a woman, then putting her body in the trunk of her car and setting it on fire. He is expected to be the ...

His emotional letter was smuggled out of the notorious Ghezel Hesar prison in Iran ... ramped up the rate of execution of its own people last year - including women, children and political prisoners.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An execution date has been set by the South Carolina Supreme Court for the man convicted in the 2001 murder of a 21-year-old woman ... final appeal last month asking ...

Last week we touched upon locals from the Beaminster area including Martha Brown, who was the last woman to hang in ... fictional Tess Durbeyfield's execution in 1892. Martha Brown was buried in the ...

DORCHESTER COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has charged a Dorchester County woman with fraud. Artasia Sanaria Scott, 24, is charged with financial identity fraud, ...

Attorneys for the federal prison system agreed last week to pay $95,000 to a transgender woman who had alleged in dozens of lawsuits that she had been abused and mistreated in its custody by both ...

A date has been set for the execution ... on Nursery Road in Dorchester County. Bowman was convicted of murder and arson, third degree, and sentenced to death in 2002. But last-minute appeals ...