A SOUTH Carolina firing squad has been accused by experts of botching the execution of a convicted cop killer, leaving him in ...

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

The solicitor who sought the death penalty for Mikal Mahdi responded Thursday to calls to investigate his execution.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said Wednesday that he disagreed with calls for an investigation into a firing squad ...

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

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.

A South Carolina man executed last month by firing squad may have suffered for an extended period of time before dying ...

Two South Carolina legislators are seeking an investigation into the state’s firing squad execution last month.

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

It was driven home when South Carolina released the results of a state-sponsored autopsy in the case of Mikal Mahdi, who it put to death by firing squad last month. The autopsy showed that the ...

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