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

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

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 ...

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

Representative Neal Collins (R - Pickens) and Representative Justin Bamberg (D - Bamberg) filed a letter to South Carolina ...

Autopsy results following SC's firing-squad execution of Mikal Mahdi in April show bullets largely missed his heart, ...

State Rep. Justin Bamberg is asking for an independent probe into the death of Mikal Mahdi, who was executed for killing an Orangeburg police officer. Mahdi also murdered a North Carolina cashier.

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

Lawyers for Mikal Mahdi, a man who was executed by firing squad in South Carolina last month, are calling his death a ...

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

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

Two South Carolina legislators are calling for an investigation into last month’s execution by firing squad, according to a letter sent to legislative leaders and the governor.