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 ...

Mahdi was the second person to be executed by firing squad in South Carolina and the fifth to be executed since the state resumed executions in September 2024 following a 13 year pause. Lawyers ...

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.

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 ...

When the three executioners fired their high-powered rifles at him, Mikal Mahdi, who was sentenced to death for the execution-style murder of an Orangeburg police officer, yelled. Over the next 80 ...

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 ...

When the three executioners fired their high-powered rifles at him, Mikal Mahdi, who was sentenced to death for the execution-style murder of an Orangeburg police officer, yelled. Over the next 80 ...