A pathologist hired by attorneys for death row inmates says a South Carolina man executed by firing squad was conscious and ...

Mikal Mahdi was the second man in South Carolina to be executed by a three-person firing squad on April 11, after admitting ...

A South Carolina firing squad reportedly missed a direct hit on Mikal Mahdi's heart and prolonged his suffering, his ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by firing squad, the second execution in South Carolina this year using the controversial ...

Autopsy results following SC's firing-squad execution of Mikal Mahdi in April show bullets largely missed his heart, ...

A botched firing squad execution left Mikal Mahdi conscious and in agony for up to a minute, after bullets missed his heart, ...

A pathologist hired by death row inmates' attorneys says a South Carolina man executed by firing squad was conscious and ...

The autopsy notes two bullet wounds even though there were three shooters, and a forensic expert says the misfires likely ...

An autopsy later revealed that none of the bullets hit his heart directly, and that his chest showed only two bullet wounds ...

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff shot him in the heart at the same time.

A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina's second firing squad execution was conscious and likely in extreme ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by the state of South Carolina on April 11 for the violent killing of off-duty Orangeburg Public Safety Officer James Myers in 2004.