South Carolina legislators call for an investigation into Mikal Mahdi's firing squad execution, amid claims of a "botched" ...

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 ...

The May 2025 firing squad execution of Mikal Deen Mahdi in South Carolina was botched, resulting in a prolonged and painful death, and raising questions about the constitutionality of the method and ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who was twice sentenced to die for killing two people nearly two decades ago was ...

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

Cop-killer Mikal Mahdi yelled in pain when he was shot inside of the state’s death chamber on April 11. He was executed for ...

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

State Reps. Neil Collins (R-District 5) and Justin Bamberg (D-District 90) question whether 'proper standards and protocols' ...

Stephen Stanko is scheduled for death on June 13 and must decide by May 30 whether to die by lethal injection, firing squad, ...

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

After exhausting his appeals, Stephen Stanko, convicted of two murders in Horry County, will have to choose his method of ...