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

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

Lawyers for man executed by firing squad in South Carolina say bullets mostly missed his heart and he suffered in extreme pain for as long as a minute.

An autopsy has revealed that South Carolina death row inmate Mikal Mahdi 'suffered' longer than the 10-15 second window he ...

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

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

Actor Martin Sheen, filmmaker Ken Burns, author Jeff Shaara, and Susan Eisenhower – the granddaughter of President Dwight Eisenhower – kicked off the festival.

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

Mikal Mahdi died in an execution method that’s meant to be quick and certain by destroying the inmate’s heart. His lawyers ...

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