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 ...

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said Wednesday that he disagreed with calls for an investigation into a firing squad execution allegedly mishandled by the state.

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

The lawmaker behind the death penalty bill said he expects legislators will pass it before this year’s session adjourns.

A firing squad execution carried out in South Carolina went wrong, leaving the subject alive and in pain for nearly a minute ...

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

Two House members asked the governor, prisons director and top legislators to investigate whether Mikal Mahdi's execution in ...

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

An upstate lawmaker is calling for an investigation into South Carolina's most recent death penalty case. Mikal Mahdi was executed by firing squad last month, the second time in the state's history.

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

Lawyers who represent the recently executed Mikal Mahdi are alleging that the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) ...