South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who ...

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

South Carolina executed Marion Bowman Jr., its third execution since September. Bowman, convicted of a 2001 murder, maintained his innocence until death.

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