Stephen Stanko, a South Carolina death row inmate, chose lethal injection after a firing squad execution was criticized as ...

A new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis allows more methods of execution for people convicted of capital crimes.

Stephen Stanko, a convicted murderer, chose after courts denied him more information about South Carolina's firing squad and ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was shot three times in the heart by trained volunteers in April. At the time, he took four minutes to die ...

Mikal Mahdi reportedly “cried out” and flexed his arms once he was shot, according to a witness of the execution ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected a request from an inmate set to die next month for more information on the ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, cried out as the bullets hit him and groaned twice before he took his final gasp of breath, the Associated Press reported. The firing squad execution of Mahdi on April 11 is the ...

Mikal Mahdi was executed on April 11, becoming the second man in South Carolina to be executed by a three-person firing squad this year after admitting to killing an off-duty police officer in 2004.

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 ...

“I think it is really stretching the truth to say that Mikal Mahdi had an autopsy. I think most pathologists would say that he had ‘an external examination of the body,’” said Jonathan ...

The recent revival of old-school execution methods is one of the most distressing signs that the United States is moving backward. While other countries eliminate the death penalty, in the U.S ...

Mikal Mahdi reportedly “cried out” and flexed his arms once he was shot, according to a witness of the execution Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer ...