Two House members asked the governor, prisons director and top legislators to investigate whether Mikal Mahdi's execution in ...

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall writes that the state of South Carolina say everything went according to plan, but that’s not ...

According to a status report filed by Mikal Mahdi’s lawyers, the autopsy and eyewitness accounts of his death raise several ...

Two state representatives are asking the South Carolina government to launch an investigation into the execution of a death row inmate after his attorneys filed a complaint alleging the process was ...

Last week, we learned another hard lesson about executions, namely that there is no foolproof way of killing someone.

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

Attorneys for a Utah man who has been on death row for 37 years sought to convince a state judge Wednesday that the convicted ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by firing squad, the second execution in South Carolina this year using the controversial ...

A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina's second firing squad execution was conscious and likely in extreme ...

Some U.S. politicians insist that the execution methods in their state are relatively painless. But it’s all a farce.

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