The Latest Breaking News from Bryan Stirling

Republican legislator admits sending hundreds of child sex abuse videos between work emails

RJ May is accused of using the screen name ‘joebidennnn69’ to exchange 220 different files of children

The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2025

FCC taking steps that would allow US prisons to jam prisoners' cellphone signals

Federal officials are moving a step closer to allowing state and federal prisons to jam cellphone signals from devices smuggled to inmates

The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2025

South Carolina prisons director is named the new US attorney for the state

The man who has led South Carolina prisons for more than a decade has been named the new U.S. attorney for the state

The Independent UK · Apr 28, 2025

Prison Supervisor Indicted For Accepting Bribes And Smuggling Phones

South Carolina prison supervisor indicted for accepting bribes and providing contraband cellphones, highlighting challenges in combating illegal phone use.

Top News · Apr 12, 2024

South Carolina inmates want executions paused while new lethal injection method is studied

Lawyers for six death row inmates out of appeals in South Carolina are asking the state Supreme Court to not immediately restart executions after the state announced it has a drug to restart lethal injections

The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2023

Nearly 800 died in SC jails and prisons from 2015-2021, report shows

Nearly 800 people died in South Carolina jails and prisons between 2015 and 2021, according to a new report from researchers at the University of South Carolina School of Law.

Tribune News Service · Feb 24, 2023

Prosecutors to Congress: Let state prisons jam cellphones

Top state prosecutors are urging Congress to pass legislation allowing state prisons to jam signals of cellphones smuggled to inmates

The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2023

South Carolina still seeking a way to hold executions

A small group of South Carolina senators are moving to shield large parts of the state's lethal injection process from public scrutiny

The Independent UK · Jan 19, 2023

Can South Carolina execute by firing squad, electrocution? State's high court sets new date to decide

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court now plans to hear oral arguments on Dec. 13 on whether the firing squad and electric chair methods of execution are constitutional.

Tribune News Service · Oct 10, 2022

Are the firing squad, electrocution constitutional? SC high court to hear issue in January

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court will take up an appeal in January from Gov. Henry McMaster and Corrections Director Bryan Stirling of a state judge’s ruling earlier this month that both the electric chair and the firing squad execution methods are unconstitutional.

Tribune News Service · Sep 16, 2022