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

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

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.

Two state representatives are asking the South Carolina government to launch an investigation into the execution of a death ...

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

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 sentenced to death for his killing spree in Windston-Salem, North Carolina, in July 2004, where he took the ...

A South Carolina triple murderer and cop killer suffered "excruciating conscious pain" during a botched execution by firing squad last month.