The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state’s death penalty, which now includes a firing squad as well as lethal injection and the electric chair, is legal.

The firing squad was added as an option for the death penalty in 2021 following a nearly decade-long effort to restart executions after the South Carolina Department of Corrections ran out of the ...

As South Carolina prepares for a firing squad execution, here are how many have gone wrong. Matthew T. Hall. Thu, February 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM UTC. 5 min read.

— A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method, which he saw ...

South Carolina plans to execute its first prisoner by firing squad on March 7 inside the same death chamber it's used for dozens of other executions. Firearms experts say that could be risky.

The Utah Department of Corrections is now officially preparing for the firing squad execution of Ralph Leroy Menzies, the ...

The US has carried out 25 executions this year, with 60% concentrated in Florida, Texas, and South Carolina, while new death ...

FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left ...

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in ...

South Carolina firing squad ‘intended to miss,’ cause inmate ‘extreme suffering,’ lawsuit says. Ted Clifford - The State (TNS) Jun 10, 2025 Jun 10, 2025; Facebook; Twitter; ...

Ralph Menzies was convicted of the 1986 murder of 25-year-old Maurine Hunsaker, a married mother of three who was found tied ...

South Carolina man Stephen Stanko died by lethal injection3. Stanko was convicted of killing his friend and girlfriend in April 2005, and also sexually assaulted his girlfriend's daughter.