"After the warden reads the execution order, the team will fire ... After the inmate is declared dead, the curtain will be drawn and witnesses escorted out." Witnesses to the execution, which ...

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday aims to reverse the long national decline in executions and provide federal ...

South Carolina is one of five states that allow execution by firing squad and executed ... It "didn’t even span the length of a 'Law & Order' episode and was just as superficial," they said.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to be put to death next month want to stop his execution ...