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

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

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 ...

Representatives in South Carolina have filed a letter to state leaders saying Mikal Mahdi's execution was, in their words, ...

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

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall writes that the state of South Carolina say everything went according to plan, but that’s not ...

An autopsy later revealed that none of the bullets hit his heart directly, and that his chest showed only two bullet wounds ...

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

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

State Rep. Justin Bamberg is asking for an independent probe into the death of Mikal Mahdi, who was executed for killing an Orangeburg police officer. Mahdi also murdered a North Carolina cashier.

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

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