A plea bargain offered in the Brian Kohberger case creates a predictable, quicker, cheaper—and to some—a more ethical outcome ...

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 ...

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

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Inside the South Carolina death chamber, the anonymous members of the state’s firing squad are hidden from view. They take aim through gunports in the chamber’s walls and fire.

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

South Carolina firing squad ‘botched’ execution of cop killer Mikal Mahdi as bullets missed heart, left him alive ‘longer than was intended’ By Natalie O'Neill Published May 8, 2025, 7:01 ...

The execution was performed by a three-person firing squad at 6:01 p.m. He was pronounced dead by a physician at 6:05 p.m., the South Carolina Department of Corrections confirmed to CBS News.

READ MORE: South Carolina prisoner is first in the U.S. to be executed by firing squad in 15 years The firing squad is an execution method with a long and violent history around the world.

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.

SOUTH CAROLINA (WCIV) — Friday night, another South Carolina inmate died by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi was on death row for killing an Orangeburg Department of Public Safety officer in 2004.