A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago. It is the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks.

“If he chose lethal injection, he risked the prolonged death suffered by all three of the men South ... of the 46 South ...

South Carolina resumed executions with the firing squad killing of Brad Sigmon last month. Mikal Madhi’s execution date is days away.

A death row inmate in South Carolina has chosen ... he risked the prolonged death suffered by all three of the men South ...

Presumably, the Court will also in the months and years ahead issue execution warrants for some of the other 27 men (no women ...

Attorneys for a South Carolina death row inmate whose execution is imminent are making a last-ditch argument that their client is incompetent to be executed partly because of his belief that he is ...

South Carolina law requires that death row inmates choose their method of execution ... But Mahdi’s legal team faces an uphill challenge. Of the six men who were scheduled to be executed when ...

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. Mikal Mahdi ...