If it moves forward, it will be the state's first execution in 13 years and the 14th execution in the nation this year. It's also the first of five executions the United States is carrying out in a six-day period between Sept.

An Aiken Department of Public Safety officer was responding to a report about a shooting on Columbia Avenue Northeast when a victim was discovered nearby on Chesterfield Street, Coroner Darryl Ables said in a news release. That’s in the city limits, not far from Aiken High School.

A South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed Friday is asking Gov. Henry McMaster to spare his life, something no governor in the state has done since the death penalty was restarted nearly 50 years ago.

The death happened in the same prison where seven inmates were killed and 17 others were injured in a violent attack in 2018.

The body of a man found in a well has sparked a coroner's investigation in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.