South Carolina Death Row. Death row inmates in South Carolina are given the choice of their method of execution between lethal injection, the electric chair and the firing squad.

Mahdi was the second person to be executed by firing squad in South Carolina and the fifth to be executed since the state resumed executions in September 2024 following a 13 year pause.

Inmate Stephen Stanko was leaning toward a death by firing squad but changed his mind when he couldn't get more details about SC's newest execution method.

South Carolina Death Row. Death row inmates in South Carolina are given the choice of their method of execution between lethal injection, the electric chair and the firing squad.

A South Carolina firing squad tried to shoot a convicted cop killer in the heart and missed in a “botched” execution that left him in “excruciating” pain as he bled out, according to an ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled last year that a firing squad was an acceptable form of punishment because even if it did cause excruciating pain, “the pain will last only ten to fifteen ...

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. Skip to content. NOWCAST WYFF News 4 at 5.

South Carolina executed another convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday night, the second such execution in the state. The inmate, Mikal Mahdi, 41, was declared dead shortly after 6 p.m ...

Along with Sigmon's firing squad death last month, three other South Carolina prisoners have been executed via lethal injection since September. The state now has 26 inmates on its death row.

SC firing squad execution was a ‘massive botch,’ inmate’s attorney says By Zak Koeske. Updated June 12, 2025 4:09 PM. Mikal Mahdi is shown at age 40 at Broad River Correctional Institution ...

Mahdi was the second person to be executed by firing squad in South Carolina and the fifth to be executed since the state resumed executions in September 2024 following a 13 year pause.