Ralph Menzies' execution by firing squad is set for next month. This will be the first death by firing squad since 2010.

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death in 2006 for the murder of an off-duty Orangeburg police captain. Mahdi was in the middle of a multi-state crime spree during which he also killed a convenience ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday refused to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days, saying the prisoner's lawyers didn't have evidence there ...

Mahdi was shot by a firing squad April 11, but he appeared to continue breathing for 80 seconds after he was shot. An autopsy found only two bullet entry wounds in Mahdi's body even though the ...

Federal judge Richard Gergel limited arguments in Stephen Stanko’s case to just lethal injection since that’s the method the condemned inmate chose for his death Friday evening.

In that April execution, the volunteer shooters nearly missed Mikal Mahdi's heart, meaning the man convicted of killing an off-duty police officer took three to four times as long to die as he was ...

A federal judge Wednesday refused to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days, saying the prisoner's lawyers didn't have evidence there were problems with the ...

A federal judge doesn't plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man's lawyers didn't have evidence of problems with the state's lethal injection ...

A federal judge doesn't plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man's lawyers didn’t have evidence of problems with the state’s lethal injection ...