Why states are turning to execution methods like firing squads and nitrogen gas 04:25. A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time ...

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 ...

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 ...

Along with Sigmon’s firing squad death last month, three other South Carolina prisoners have been executed via lethal injection since September. South Carolina now has 28 inmates on its death row.

A South Carolina man executed last month by firing squad may have suffered for an extended period of time before dying because shooters largely missed his heart, an autopsy commissioned by the ...

Each of the three people in the firing squad was supposed to have a live round. In the attempt to explain why an autopsy that South Carolina commissioned found only two wounds, a doctor added a ...

Next month, the state of Florida will officially be allowed to use new means of executing prisoners on death row — with some ...

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders is scheduled to die by lethal injection in the state’s ...

A federal judge doesn't plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man's lawyers didn’t have evidence of problems with the state’s lethal injection process ...

A new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis allows more methods of execution for people convicted of capital crimes.

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying out executions ...