Only three other states - Idaho, Mississippi and Oklahoma - allow firing squad executions. Mikal Mahdi, a South Carolina man executed by firing squad in April, was conscious and likely in extreme pain ...

In South Carolina's first firing squad execution, the three bullets completely destroyed Brad Sigmon's heart.With Mahdi, an autopsy found that two bullet paths hit his organs and damaged one of ...

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed on Sept. 5, but his lawyers say his deteriorating mental state, caused by ...

Utah death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies is scheduled to be executed by firing squad just after midnight on Sept. 5.

Five weeks later, though, what happened in the same room during Mikal Mahdi’s firing squad death remains disputed, largely because South Carolina’s execution protocols are shrouded in secrecy.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who was twice sentenced to die for killing two people nearly two decades ago was scheduled Friday to be executed on June 13. The state Supreme Court ...

Ralph Menzies was convicted of the 1986 murder of 25-year-old Maurine Hunsaker, a married mother of three who was found tied to a tree with her throat slit.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — When the three executioners fired their high-powered rifles at him, Mikal Mahdi, who was sentenced to death for the execution-style murder of an Orangeburg police officer ...

Hearing didn't address possible firing squad problems The most serious accusations in Stanko's lawsuit is that in Mahdi's execution, the autopsy report showed the bullets barely hit the bottom of ...

Hearing didn’t address possible firing squad problems The most serious accusations in Stanko’s lawsuit is that in Mahdi’s execution, the autopsy report showed the bullets barely hit the ...