South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster denied clemency for the man set to be executed Friday night for a 2001 Dorchester County murder.

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

An inmate on South Carolina’s death row died by lethal injection on Friday night, the third execution carried out by the ...

South Carolina is preparing to execute the third inmate since September as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who ...