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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...