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

The lawmaker behind the death penalty bill said he expects legislators will pass it before this year’s session adjourns.

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

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

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 ...

State Reps. Neil Collins (R-District 5) and Justin Bamberg (D-District 90) question whether 'proper standards and protocols' ...

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 ...

The May 2025 firing squad execution of Mikal Deen Mahdi in South Carolina was botched, resulting in a prolonged and painful death, and raising questions about the constitutionality of the method and ...

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

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