The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating the death of a 40-year-old inmate at the York County Detention ...

The in-custody death of the 40-year-old woman is the first in 2025 after four custody deaths at York County and Rock Hill ...

Hannah Parry is a Newsweek Live Blog Editor based in New York. Her focus is ... It is not unexpected, as no South Carolina governor has granted clemency for an inmate facing the death penalty ...

Sigmon chose a firing squad after concerns were raised about previous lethal injection executions in South Carolina. Inmates required ... couple in their Greenville County home, and then abducted ...

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating the death of a 40-year-old inmate at the York County Detention Center. Inmate dies following medical emergency at York County Detention ...

None of the prison officers appeared to know their body cameras would passively record a vicious beating that led to the ...

UPDATE (March 7, 2025, 6:43 p.m. ET): A South Carolina official said Brad Sigmon ... He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author ...

None of the prison officers appeared to know their body cameras would passively record a vicious beating that led to the ...

South Carolina now has 28 inmates on its death row including two ... Department's unusual and divisive request to dismiss New York City Mayor Eric Adams' corruption case, a court-appointed lawyer ...

Advert The inmate is making history as he's the first South Carolina prisoner to be executed via a firing squad while the method is being used in the US for the first time in 15 years. The New York ...

The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of his concerns about lethal injection, his lawyer said. By Eduardo Medina ...