Autopsy results following SC's firing-squad execution of Mikal Mahdi in April show bullets largely missed his heart, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina's second firing squad execution was conscious and ...

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

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

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

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

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff shot him in the heart at the same time.

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

The legal team for a man who was executed by firing squad in South Carolina claims the process was mishandled.

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by the state of South Carolina on April 11 for the violent killing of off-duty Orangeburg Public Safety Officer James Myers in 2004.

In South Carolina, autopsy records reveal corrections officers botched the execution of Mikal Mahdi, who was killed by firing ...