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Two South Carolina legislators are seeking an investigation into the state's firing squad execution last month.
Two House members asked the governor, prisons director and top legislators to investigate whether Mikal Mahdi's execution in ...
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 ...
Mikal Mahdi, a South Carolina inmate executed by firing squad, is said to have died in 'excruciating conscious pain,' ...
Autopsy results following SC's firing-squad execution of Mikal Mahdi in April show bullets largely missed his heart, ...
A pathologist hired by attorneys for death row inmates says a South Carolina man executed by firing squad was conscious and ...
According to a status report filed by Mikal Mahdi’s lawyers, the autopsy and eyewitness accounts of his death raise several ...
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 ...
The legal team for Mikal Mahdi, who was executed by firing squad on April 11, claim in a legal filing that their client ...
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said Wednesday that he disagreed with calls for an investigation into a firing squad ...