Roy Lee Ward, 52, was sentenced to death in 2007 for the July 11, 2001, rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl in the southern ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Madhi’s death was the second by firing squad in just over a month in South Carolina. Brad Sigmon was put to death on March 7, marking the first firing squad-style execution in the U.S. in 15 ...

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.

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina's second firing squad execution was conscious and likely in extreme pain for as long as a minute after the bullets ...

“The curtain opened up a little after 5:59. When it opened up, Mikal Mahdi was sitting in the firing squad chair; they came out, and right at 56:01, they put the hood over his chest.

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