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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...