The governor has authority to grant clemency, but it's a power that has not been exercised in SC since the U.S. resumed ...

South Carolina is set on Friday to execute Freddie Owens, who would become the first death row inmate to die at the hands of ...

A last-minute appeal and request for clemency were denied for the Greenville man convicted of killing convenience store clerk ...

A law allowing families to use taxpayer money for private school education violates the constitution, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause because prison officials couldn’t get the drugs needed for lethal injections ...

Freddie Eugene Owens, 46, is scheduled to die just after 6 p.m. Friday at a Columbia prison. He was convicted of the 1997 killing of a clerk who could not get the safe open at a convenience store in ...

Just days before inmate Freddie Owens is set to die by lethal injection in South Carolina, the friend whose testimony helped ...

In a significant development for South Carolina's juvenile justice system, a new psychiatric residential treatment facility ...

A controversial comedy roast, hosted by a student organization at the University of South Carolina, is scheduled to proceed ...