South Carolina has has put a third inmate to death in four months as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal injection drugs.

A lawyer for a South Carolina death row inmate says he won't ask the governor for clemency.

Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more information about the drug that will kill him.

South Carolina’s prisons director says the state's supply of its lethal injection drug is pure, its electric chair was tested two months ago and its firing squad has the ammunition and training to carry out its first execution in more than 13 years.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has blocked two upcoming executions, saying those inmates cannot be put to death until they truly have a choice of a newly established firing squad option.

The two South Carolina inmates scheduled to die this month want an appellate court to halt their deaths by electrocution.

A South Carolina judge is refusing to block two executions set for later this month.