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

Death row inmates can now choose whether to die by firing squad, lethal injection, or the electric chair, according to ...

A pathologist hired by attorneys for death row inmates says a South Carolina man executed by firing squad was conscious and likely in extreme pain for as long as a minute.

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 ...

State Reps. Neil Collins (R-District 5) and Justin Bamberg (D-District 90) question whether 'proper standards and protocols' ...

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

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the crimes that led to Mahdi’s death sentence— and how the firing squad, once ...

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

Our politicians want tough-guy credit for killing killers, while detaching themselves from the reality of their decisions.

An inmate sentenced to death twice in two South Carolina killings has been scheduled to be executed on June 13 ...

Lawyers who represent the recently executed Mikal Mahdi are alleging that the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) “botched” their client’s firing squad execution, which caused ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who was twice sentenced to die for killing two people nearly two decades ago was ...