A South Carolina man executed last month by firing squad may have suffered for an extended period of time before dying because shooters largely missed his heart, an autopsy commissioned by the state ...

The execution of Mikal Mahdi, 42, will mark the second time in five weeks that the state has used a firing squad Lesley Cosme Torres is a writer at PEOPLE covering crime. She has been working at ...

COLUMBIA, S.C -- A firing squad on Friday 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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - The man sentenced to death for the killing of an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in 2004 is now scheduled to be the fifth person executed since the death penalty resumed ...

COLUMBIA, S.C.— A firing squad on Friday 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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two South Carolina legislators have requested an investigation into the state's firing squad execution last month after lawyers for the inmate said his autopsy showed the shots nearly ...

COLUMBIA — Mikal Mahdi took about three minutes to die April 11 after three bullets from rifles of state's executioners tore through his chest. The Virginia man convicted of murdering a police officer ...

A convicted cop killer who became the second death row inmate in South Carolina to die by firing squad chomped on a ribeye steak, mushroom risotto, broccoli, collard greens and cheesecake before he ...