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

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

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

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 ...

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

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said Wednesday that he disagreed with calls for an investigation into a firing squad ...

Lawyers who represent the recently executed Mikal Mahdi are alleging that the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) “botched” their client’s firing squad execution, which caused ...

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

Some U.S. politicians insist that the execution methods in their state are relatively painless. But it’s all a farce.

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

Attorneys representing Mikal Mahdi filed a complaint with the South Carolina Supreme Court against South Carolina Department ...

Mikal Mahdi was killed last month by prison officials, but autopsy results indicated that executioners did not follow ...