Some U.S. politicians insist that the execution methods in their state are relatively painless. But it’s all a farce.

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

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

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

A firing squad execution carried out in South Carolina went wrong, leaving the subject alive and in pain for nearly a minute ...

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.

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.

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...

The legal team for a man who was executed by firing squad in South Carolina claims the process was mishandled.

Lawyers for man executed by firing squad in South Carolina say bullets mostly missed his heart and he suffered in extreme pain for as long as a minute.