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An inmate sentenced to death twice in two South Carolina killings has been scheduled to be executed on June 13.

A former court clerk who helped with the murder trial that led to the conviction of once-powerful South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has been arrested.

The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday the state can keep banning abortions around six weeks after conception by agreeing with the earliest interpretation offered of when a heartbeat starts.

A pathologist hired by attorneys for death row inmates says a South Carolina man executed by firing squad was conscious and likely in extreme pain for as long as a minute. The autopsy results for Mikal Mahdi show the bullets meant to quickly stop his heart struck him lower than expected.

The man who has led South Carolina prisons for more than a decade has been named the new U.S. attorney for the state. Bryan Stirling took the oath of office Monday in a private ceremony at the federal courthouse in Columbia.

South Carolina's Republican-dominated Senate voted 33-8 on Monday to kick the Republican treasurer out of office over a $1.8 billion accounting error.

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks.

A second South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first execution by bullets. Mikal Mahdi chose the firing squad Friday. The 41-year-old inmate's execution is scheduled for April 11.

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in the state since the death penalty resumed last fall following a 13-year pause.

A South Carolina man convicted of murder was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner to die by that method in 15 years.