Death row inmate seeks to volunteer to die after friends are executed in South Carolina - The inmate appears to want to die ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nineteen men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and nine other people are scheduled to be put ...

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 ...