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

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

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, ...

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

The autopsy notes two bullet wounds even though there were three shooters, and a forensic expert says the misfires likely ...

A South Carolina firing squad reportedly missed a direct hit on Mikal Mahdi's heart and prolonged his suffering, his ...

The legal team for Mikal Mahdi, who was executed by firing squad on April 11, claim in a legal filing that their client ...

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

An inmate put to death last month in South Carolina's second firing squad execution was conscious and likely in extreme pain for up to a minute after the bullets missed their target, attorneys allege.

Lawyers for man executed by firing squad in South Carolina say bullets mostly missed his heart and he suffered in extreme pain for as long as a minute.