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

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

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

The lawmaker behind the death penalty bill said he expects legislators will pass it before this year’s session adjourns.

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

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

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

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

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

An upstate lawmaker is calling for an investigation into South Carolina's most recent death penalty case. Mikal Mahdi was executed by firing squad last month, the second time in the state's history.

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

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