A South Carolina firing squad reportedly missed a direct hit on Mikal Mahdi's heart and prolonged his suffering, his ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...