Mikal Mahdi was the second man in South Carolina to be executed by a three-person firing squad on April 11, after admitting to killing an off-duty police officer in 2004.

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

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

The South Carolina General Assembly has finalized sweeping energy legislation (the “South Carolina Energy Security Act”) to ...

On May 8, 2025, the South Carolina General Assembly passed House Bill 3292, authorizing municipalities and counties to permit golf cart opera ...

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.

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

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

A sweeping energy permitting reform bill two years in the making is headed to the governor's desk, allowing a planned natural ...

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

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

Though inmates on Death Row all have the same destination, some methods are more painful and torturous than others, experts ...