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 ...

A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina's second firing squad execution was conscious and likely suffered in ...

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

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff shot him in the heart at the same time.

The first firing squad execution in over 15 years was carried out last month. It provides a glimpse into how such executions may go.

The legal team for Mikal Mahdi, who was executed by firing squad on April 11, claim in a legal filing that their client suffered an “excruciating death” and that “nothing about his execution was ...

A firing squad executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks.

As Tennessee is set to carry out its first execution under the state’s new death penalty protocol this month, some death row inmates say the firing squad would be more humane.

In March, South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon, who was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a ...

Whenever someone is executed, a few journalists act as witnesses and report on what happened. It’s an incredibly difficult ...

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