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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for his killing spree in Windston-Salem, North Carolina, in July 2004, where he took the ...

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

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