South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad on March 7, marking its first use of the execution method.

South America is in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, with the Equator running directly through the continent. The Tropic of Capricorn also runs through South America. The Pacific Ocean ...

The United States can be divided ... than the national average. The states in the Stroke Belt, mostly in the Southeast, are Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi ...

Newsweek's map, below, shows where the change is happening, comparing the oldest available data—from 2007 or in some cases 2014—from Pew's Religious Landscape Study and its most recent, from 2023-24, ...