Two South Carolina legislators have requested an investigation into the state's firing squad execution last month after ...

The May 2025 firing squad execution of Mikal Deen Mahdi in South Carolina was botched, resulting in a prolonged and painful ...

An autopsy later revealed that none of the bullets hit his heart directly, and that his chest showed only two bullet wounds ...

A pathologist hired by attorneys for death row inmates says a South Carolina man executed by firing squad was conscious and ...

Cop-killer Mikal Mahdi yelled in pain when he was shot inside of the state’s death chamber on April 11. He was executed for ...

A botched firing squad execution left Mikal Mahdi conscious and in agony for up to a minute, after bullets missed his heart, ...

The lawmaker behind the death penalty bill said he expects legislators will pass it before this year’s session adjourns.

Two House members asked the governor, prisons director and top legislators to investigate whether Mikal Mahdi's execution in ...

Mikal Mahdi was the second man in South Carolina to be executed by a three-person firing squad on April 11, after admitting ...

Mikal Mahdi, a South Carolina inmate executed by firing squad, is said to have died in 'excruciating conscious pain,' ...

Lawyers who represent the recently executed Mikal Mahdi are alleging that the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) ...

Mikal Mahdi was executed by a firing squad of three South Carolina Department of Corrections employees on April 11. An ...