Stephen Stanko, a South Carolina death row inmate, chose lethal injection after a firing squad execution was criticized as ...

Death row inmates can now choose whether to die by firing squad, lethal injection, or the electric chair, according to current state law.

Mikal Mahdi, 42 — who murdered a South Carolina police officer during a crime spree in 2004 — was shot to death by a three-person firing squad on April 11. But an autopsy later revealed that ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected a request from an inmate set to die next month for more information on the ...

Mikal Mahdi — who was convicted of two 2004 murders, including the death of a police officer — was executed on April 11. Now, his legal team claims the South Carolina Department of Corrections ...

Condemned prisoners in South Carolina can also choose lethal injection or the electric ... “I think it is really stretching the truth to say that Mikal Mahdi had an autopsy. I think most pathologists ...

Stephen Stanko, a convicted murderer, chose after courts denied him more information about South Carolina's firing squad and ...

South Carolina’s refusal to acknowledge their ... It appears that in the case of Mikal Mahdi, each member of the firing squad did just that. Mahdi’s execution was barbaric.

Mikal Mahdi, 42, cried out as the bullets hit him ... on April 11 is the second one to be carried out this year in South Carolina using the controversial method. Now Mahdi’s attorneys have ...

An inmate sentenced to death twice in two South Carolina killings has been scheduled to be executed on June 13 ...

Henry McMaster said he sees no need to investigate. This photo provided by South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Mikal Mahdi. Credit: AP “The governor has high confidence in the ...

Mikal Mahdi reportedly “cried out” and flexed his arms once he was shot, according to a witness of the execution ...