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A SOUTH Carolina firing squad has been accused by experts of botching the execution of a convicted cop killer, leaving him in ...
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said Wednesday that he disagreed with calls for an investigation into a firing squad ...
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 ...
The lawmaker behind the death penalty bill said he expects legislators will pass it before this year’s session adjourns.
A botched firing squad execution left Mikal Mahdi conscious and in agony for up to a minute, after bullets missed his heart, ...
A British man has been hauled into court in Bali for allegedly smuggling a kilo of MDMA to the party island where drug crimes ...
Two South Carolina legislators are seeking an investigation into the state’s firing squad execution last month.
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 ...
Bree Derrick is now at the helm of Idaho’s prison system, stepping into a key leadership role as the department navigates ...
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.