Nineteen men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 11 other people are scheduled to be put ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...

Autopsies done on two of the three previous inmates killed by lethal injection in South Carolina in the past year have shown ...

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 ...

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 — 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 ...

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.

Mikal Mahdi's firing squad execution in South Carolina is under scrutiny after a pathologist's report suggested he remained conscious and suffered extreme pain for up to a minute due to misplaced ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The legal team for a man who was executed by firing squad in South Carolina claims the process was mishandled by the state. Attorneys representing Mikal Mahdi filed a ...