Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by firing squad, the second execution in South Carolina this year using the controversial ...

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

In March, South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon, who was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a ...

Pee Wee Gaskins was the friendliest and most sociable serial killer Dick Harpootlian has ever met. “You like killing, just ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT As the death penalty continues to be a point of heated debate 60 years since the last person was ...

The autopsy notes two bullet wounds even though there were three shooters, and a forensic expert says the misfires likely ...

He wore his prison-provided uniform and was secured to a chair inside the execution chamber. “Unless he chose lethal injection or firing squad, he would die in the old South Carolina electric ...

A bill moving in the state House this week would reintroduce the electric chair and firing squads as part of the death ...

South Carolina allows condemned inmates to choose whether to die by lethal injection, electric chair or firing squad. Three in the past year have chosen lethal injection, but the past two opted ...

Lawmakers in South Carolina adopted the firing squad, and reintroduced the electric chair, as execution methods in 2021. The state’s Supreme Court ruled in July 2024 that the death penalty with ...