Menzies, 67, is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 5 by firing squad for the 1986 kidnapping and murder of 26-year-old Maurine ...

“I sought the death penalty for Mikal Mahdi because he is the epitome of evil,” said Pascoe. “As I said in my closing statement, ‘his heart and mind are full of hate and malice.’ ...

Mikal Mahdi — who was convicted of two 2004 murders, including the death of a police officer — was executed on April 11. Now, his legal team claims the South Carolina Department of Corrections ...

Mikal Mahdi died by firing squad on April 11 at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. It was, in the opinion of myself and many others, 16 years too late in coming ...

Mikal Mahdi was executed on April 11, becoming the second man in South Carolina to be executed by a three-person firing squad this year after admitting to killing an off-duty police officer in 2004.

Mahdi was put to death for the 2004 shooting of an off-duty police officer during a robbery. This photo provided by South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Mikal Mahdi.

Lawyers for Mikal Mahdi, a man who was executed by firing squad in South Carolina last month, are calling his death a "botched execution." Mahdi’s lawyers said the bullets that were meant to hit ...

In South Carolina, autopsy records reveal corrections officers botched the execution of Mikal Mahdi, who was killed by firing squad last month. Mahdi’s three executioners missed his heart ...