Two South Carolina legislators are seeking an investigation into the state's firing squad execution last month.

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 ...

A botched firing squad execution left Mikal Mahdi conscious and in agony for up to a minute, after bullets missed his heart, ...

The new IDOC Director Bree Derrick sits down exclusively with Idaho News 6 to discuss her background, leadership vision, and ...

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said Wednesday that he disagreed with calls for an investigation into a firing squad ...

According to a status report filed by Mikal Mahdi’s lawyers, the autopsy and eyewitness accounts of his death raise several ...

Mikal Mahdi was executed on April 11, becoming the second man in South Carolina to be executed by a three-person firing squad ...

A SOUTH Carolina firing squad has been accused by experts of botching the execution of a convicted cop killer, leaving him in ...

Mikal Mahdi reportedly “cried out” and flexed his arms once he was shot, according to a witness of the execution ...

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

Lawyers for Man Executed by Firing Squad in South Carolina Say Bullets Mostly Missed His Heart COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man ...