Lawyers for Mikal Mahdi said the inmate's autopsy after his April 11 execution showed the shots nearly missed his heart, left ...

The May 2025 firing squad execution of Mikal Deen Mahdi in South Carolina was botched, resulting in a prolonged and painful ...

An upstate lawmaker is calling for an investigation into South Carolina's most recent death penalty case. Mikal Mahdi was executed by firing squad last month, the second time in the state's history.

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 ...

Representatives in South Carolina have filed a letter to state leaders saying Mikal Mahdi's execution was, in their words, botched.

Representatives in South Carolina have filed a letter to state leaders saying Mikal Mahdi’s execution was, in their words, botched.

SC Representatives send letter to Governor McMaster to open investigation into "botched" death row inmate execution.

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 ...

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 ...