Executioners strapped him into a chair in a steel basin with a hood over his head and a target over his heart at the South Carolina Department of Corrections' execution chamber in Columbia.

ONE terrible night 24 years ago, factory worker Brad Sigmon stayed up smoking crack cocaine and planning violent revenge. He was going to kidnap girlfriend Rebecca Barbare who had jilted him after ...

Derek Black, a law professor at the University of South Carolina, told me that the letter’s definition ... For any individual ...

At least three-quarters of South Carolina’s House members approved the more than 100 sections of the state’s $14 billion ...

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

South Carolina is a rapidly growing state, driven entirely by people moving. 2025 census data shows the most growth in Hilton ...

As South Carolina prepared to carry out the first execution ... to a chair specially designed for the purpose and have a hood placed over his head while three corrections staffers, who volunteered ...

The Coastal Carolina softball team upset the No. 9 South Carolina Gamecocks 5-3 in Columbia, S.C., on Wednesday evening.

On Friday, South Carolina put Brad Sigmon to death for the ... Before they killed Sigmon, corrections officials put a hood over his head and placed a “small aim point” over the inmate ...

A new apartment complex could fill the entire block of Elmwood Avenue between Marion and Bull streets — if the city’s planning department approves the nearly 300-unit project slated for the site.

A federal judge in New York has blocked any efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist at Columbia University who was arrested Saturday ...

Amari Smith, one of three men charged in connection with the 2022 mass shooting at the Columbiana Centre, was sentenced ...