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

His lawyers said he was troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the last person in the state who was killed by a ...

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

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 ...

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

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 state Supreme Court rejected a request for more details about the firing squad from an inmate set to die next month over ...

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, 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 ...

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.

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