An Associated Press journalist has served as a media eyewitness to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad Friday in South Carolina.

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method.

A Texas man has been executed for the killing of a Dallas area pastor who was attacked in his church during a robbery.

South Carolina has has put a third inmate to death in four months as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal injection drugs.

A lawyer for a South Carolina death row inmate says he won't ask the governor for clemency.

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.