Ashley Lane and Leigha Ricks are charged with helping hide or transport their sons after their alleged involvement in a fatal shooting on Miles Bowman Road.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected a death row inmate’s request for information on the most recent execution, which was carried out last week.

South Carolina went 13 years between executions before restarting them last year in part because the state couldn’t obtain drugs for lethal injections. A shield law passed in 2023 keeps private the ...

The General Assembly passed a shield law and prison officials were able to find a compounding pharmacy willing to make the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Executive Director Hillary Taylor speaks against the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Thursday what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his ...

Bowman’s lawyers also challenged South Carolina's shield law, saying is not fair to inmates because it releases so little ...

Bowman’s lawyers also challenged South Carolina’s shield law, saying is not fair to inmates because it releases so little information about the drug used to kill inmates and the execution ...

Meanwhile, civil rights groups are challenging the state's shield law for information around the death penalty. Bowman and his attorneys sought a reprieve from a federal court earlier this month ...

A shield law keeps private the supplier and manufacturer ... The state says that if Marion Bowman Jr. is so worried about dying by lethal injection on Jan. 31, it also offers a choice of the ...