This week on Connect to the Capitol we examine the scrutiny that capital punishment is facing right now in South Carolina.A man twice se ...

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the crimes that led to Mahdi’s death sentence— and how the firing squad, once ...

A federal court judge has appointed an attorney to determine if James Robertson is capable of representing himself; he made a ...

Nineteen men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and nine other people are scheduled to be put ...

Brad Sigmon become the first person in almost 15 years to be executed by a previously banned method earlier this year ...

Our politicians want tough-guy credit for killing killers, while detaching themselves from the reality of their decisions.

Robertson, 51, has been on death row since 1999 after killing both his parents in their Rock Hill home. He beat his father ...

James Robertson, 51, has been on death row since 1999 after killing both his parents in their Rock Hill home. Now he says he's ready to die.

His attorneys have questioned whether two of the available methods, firing squad and lethal injection, have gone the way ...

Tennessee is set to execute its first death row inmate in years. Here's which states have the death penalty and which methods are still practiced.

The state Supreme Court issued the death warrant against Stephen Stanko for the Horry County shooting death of a friend.

Stephen Stanko, an inmate set to be put to death in June, is seeking secretive details about SC's execution methods following ...