Protesters for and against the death penalty stand outside as South Carolina’s first execution in 13 years looms.

Attorneys for Freddie Owens have disputed his conviction in the 1997 Halloween night killing of store clerk Irene Graves, ...

Freddie Owens is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. on Friday, despite a codefendant's new claim of ...

South Carolina is scheduled to execute a death row inmate after a key witness recently said he lied during trial.

South Carolina law allows condemned inmates to choose to die by lethal injection, firing squad or the electric chair.