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

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

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...

A firing squad executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks.

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

South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they ...

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

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff shot him in the heart at the same time.

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

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

Lawyers for man executed by firing squad in South Carolina say bullets mostly missed his heart and he suffered in extreme pain for as long as a minute.

Mikal Mahdi was killed last month by prison officials, but autopsy results indicated that executioners did not follow ...