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

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 ...

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

Two South Carolina legislators are calling for an investigation into last month’s execution by firing squad, according to a letter sent to legislative leaders and the governor.

Two House members asked the governor, prisons director and top legislators to investigate whether Mikal Mahdi's execution in ...

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

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

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

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.

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

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