The May 2025 firing squad execution of Mikal Deen Mahdi in South Carolina was botched, resulting in a prolonged and painful ...

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

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

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, ...

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.

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

A 42-year-old man convicted of two murders in 2004, Mikal Mahdi, chose a firing squad to carry out his death sentence.

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

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

Last week, we learned another hard lesson about executions, namely that there is no foolproof way of killing someone.

Some U.S. politicians insist that the execution methods in their state are relatively painless. But it’s all a farce.