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 ...

Other bills would undermine public defense, eliminate the Innocence Inquiry Commission, and take away clemency.

Stanko changed his mind and decided to die by lethal injection because of accounts about the last firing squad death. In that April execution, the volunteer shooters nearly missed Mikal Mahdi’s ...

SC officials describe firing squad execution. Officials in South Carolina gave remarks to the media on the firing squad execution of Mikal Mahdi, who was convicted of killing three people and ...

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. — 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 ...

Mikal Mahdi, a South Carolina man executed by firing squad in April, was conscious and likely in extreme pain for up to a minute after the bullets missed their target and failed to quickly stop ...

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 ...

In that April execution, the volunteer shooters nearly missed Mikal Mahdi's heart, meaning the man convicted of killing an off-duty police officer took three to four times as long to die as he was ...

Stanko changed his mind and decided to die by lethal injection because of accounts about the last firing squad death. In that April execution, the volunteer shooters nearly missed Mikal Mahdi’s ...

Stanko changed his mind and decided to die by lethal injection because of accounts about the last firing squad death. In that April execution, the volunteer shooters nearly missed Mikal Mahdi’s ...