A South Carolina judge has ruled that John Richard Wood, sentenced to death for killing a state trooper in 2000, is mentally incompetent to be executed. Expert testimony showed Wood suffers from ...

A judge has stopped South Carolina from executing a prisoner for now, finding that his schizophrenia prevents him from understanding why he faces death. Wood remains under a death sentence, but the ...

South Carolina's execution of a convicted murderer by firing squad marked the sixth use of capital punishment in the United States this year.

John Richard Wood, 56, was set to be executed after serving more than 25 years for killing a state trooper in South Carolina, US.

A US man who claims to be immortal has been deemed too mentally ill to be executed, after spending over two decades on death row. John Richard Wood was sentenced to death after killing state trooper ...

Two people were put to death last week. The first happened when Florida carried out the execution of Bryan Jennings. Jennings had been convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual battery, ...

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) — A circuit court judge has ruled that death row inmate John Richard Wood cannot be executed due to his mental illness. The ruling states that Wood lacks the ability to ...

South Carolina’s attorney general is supporting a federal proposal that would speed up the appeals process for death row inmates. The proposed rule change would make it easier for states ...

A recent report from the Death Penalty Information Center (DPI) details the historical role of race in South Carolina's capital punishment system. The findings indicate that the state's death penalty ...