The firing squad put a hood over 42-year-old Mikal Mahdi's head and shot him in the heart simultaneously with three bullets, and he was pronounced dead at 6:05 p.m. ET. His attorney, who witnessed ...

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the warrant for the state to execute convicted murderer Michael Bell, he tied the state ...

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

Mikal Mahdi is scheduled to be executed by firing squad in South Carolina for the 2004 murder of a police officer. Mahdi's attorneys are seeking a reprieve, citing his troubled childhood ...

Stephen Stanko is hoping a South Carolina federal judge will pause his upcoming execution following claims by his attorneys ...

Stephen Stanko was sentenced to a rare double death penalties for two murders committed near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina ...

If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June, the same number will have taken place in the first half of ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying ...

Did a South Carolina firing squad deliberately try to miss a man's heart during an execution last month to prolong his death?

South Carolina plans to execute Mikal Mahdi this month. A bare description of his crimes might make that seem justified: In 2004, Mikal murdered Christopher Boggs, a store clerk in North Carolina.

A federal judge doesn't plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man's lawyers ...

A federal judge refused to halt the execution of Stephen Stanko, set for Friday, saying his lawyers provided no evidence that ...