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

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

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

A firing squad execution carried out in South Carolina went wrong, leaving the subject alive and in pain for nearly a minute ...

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

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

A SOUTH Carolina firing squad has been accused by experts of botching the execution of a convicted cop killer, leaving him in ...

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

A South Carolina triple murderer and cop killer suffered "excruciating conscious pain" during a botched execution by firing squad last month.

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

In March, South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon, who was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a ...

Unlike South Carolina, Utah uses a five-member firing squad with .30-caliber rifles loaded with two rounds. The five shooters are more than 20 to 20 feet away from the prisoner. One of the rifles ...