A South Carolina man who was twice sentenced to die for killing two people nearly two decades ago was scheduled Friday to be ...

After exhausting his appeals, Stephen Stanko, convicted of two murders in Horry County, will have to choose his method of ...

Amid calls for an investigation into an allegedly “botched” execution, the man who pushed for the death penalty in the case ...

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 ...

Cop-killer Mikal Mahdi yelled in pain when he was shot inside of the state’s death chamber on April 11. He was executed for ...

One month before Mahdi was shot, on March 7, another South Carolina death row prisoner, Brad Sigmon, became the first person ...

Two House members asked the governor, prisons director and top legislators to investigate whether Mikal Mahdi's execution in ...

Mikal Mahdi was killed last month by prison officials, but autopsy results indicated that executioners did not follow ...

Autopsy on first man killed by firing squad showed obliterated heart In contrast the autopsy on Brad Sigmon, the first man killed by firing squad in the state, showed three distinct bullet wounds ...

An inmate sentenced to death twice in two South Carolina killings has been scheduled to be executed on June 13 ...