Two South Carolina legislators are seeking an investigation into the state’s firing squad execution last month.

The May 2025 firing squad execution of Mikal Deen Mahdi in South Carolina was botched, resulting in a prolonged and painful ...

State Reps. Neil Collins (R-District 5) and Justin Bamberg (D-District 90) question whether 'proper standards and protocols' ...

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

Two South Carolina legislators have requested an investigation into the state's firing squad execution last month after ...

Cop-killer Mikal Mahdi yelled in pain when he was shot inside of the state’s death chamber on April 11. He was executed for ...

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

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

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

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

Mikal Mahdi, a South Carolina inmate executed by firing squad, is said to have died in 'excruciating conscious pain,' ...

Lawyers who represent the recently executed Mikal Mahdi are alleging that the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) ...