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

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

South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko has chosen to die by lethal injection after his lawyers say he is troubled by ...

Lawyers who represent the recently executed Mikal Mahdi are alleging that the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) “botched” their client’s firing squad execution, which caused ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two South Carolina representatives have called for an independent investigation into the execution of death row inmate Mikal Mahdi. Mahdi's attorneys dispute the autopsy report, claiming 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 ...

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 ...

Ron Kaz demonstrates outside the site of the scheduled execution of South Carolina inmate Mikal Mahdi in Columbia, S.C., Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/David Yeazell) Ron Kaz demonstrates ...