Two South Carolina legislators are seeking an investigation into the state's firing squad execution last month.

Cop-killer Mikal Mahdi yelled in pain when he was shot inside of the state’s death chamber on April 11. He was executed for ...

Representative Neal Collins (R - Pickens) and Representative Justin Bamberg (D - Bamberg) filed a letter to South Carolina ...

Two South Carolina legislators are calling for an investigation into last month’s execution by firing squad, according to a letter sent to legislative leaders and the governor.

Representatives in South Carolina have filed a letter to state leaders saying Mikal Mahdi’s execution was, in their words, botched.

Two House members asked the governor, prisons director and top legislators to investigate whether Mikal Mahdi's execution in ...

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall writes that the state of South Carolina say everything went according to plan, but that’s not ...

According to a status report filed by Mikal Mahdi’s lawyers, the autopsy and eyewitness accounts of his death raise several ...

Last week, we learned another hard lesson about executions, namely that there is no foolproof way of killing someone.

Two state representatives are asking the South Carolina government to launch an investigation into the execution of a death ...

Mikal Mahdi, a South Carolina inmate executed by firing squad, is said to have died in 'excruciating conscious pain,' ...