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

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, ...

Mikal Mahdi, a South Carolina inmate executed by firing squad, is said to have died in 'excruciating conscious pain,' ...

Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reflected on the “shocking” nature of Democratic Party leaders turning ...

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 ...

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.

Representative Neal Collins (R - Pickens) and Representative Justin Bamberg (D - Bamberg) filed a letter to South Carolina ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina's second firing squad execution was conscious ...