A botched firing squad execution left Mikal Mahdi conscious and in agony for up to a minute, after bullets missed his heart, ...

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

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina's second firing squad execution was conscious ...

Mikal Mahdi was the second man in South Carolina to be executed by a three-person firing squad on April 11, after admitting ...

A firing squad execution carried out in South Carolina went wrong, leaving the subject alive and in pain for nearly a minute ...

An autopsy later revealed that none of the bullets hit his heart directly, and that his chest showed only two bullet wounds ...

The autopsy notes two bullet wounds even though there were three shooters, and a forensic expert says the misfires likely ...

Autopsy results following SC's firing-squad execution of Mikal Mahdi in April show bullets largely missed his heart, ...

The legal team for Mikal Mahdi, who was executed by firing squad on April 11, claim in a legal filing that their client ...

Tennessee’s main method of execution is lethal injection, but some death row inmates argue the firing squad may be more ...

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