Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

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.

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. Lawyers ...

While South Carolina law defers to SCDC personnel to design the execution protocols, former state Sen. Dick Harpootlian said he believed it was a given that those selected for the firing squad ...

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

A federal judge declined to stop Stephen Stanko’s execution, scheduled for Friday evening. The judge limited arguments to lethal injection, the method Stanko chose over firing squad. Stanko’s ...

Despite the associated blood and gore, the firing squad — condemned inmates like himself were told — offered a quick, sure and less-agonizing death than the state's alternatives of lethal injection ...

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate will be in federal court Wednesday trying to convince a judge that the state is ...

A member of law enforcement stands near a vehicle at the department of corrections before the scheduled firing squad execution of South Carolina inmate Mikal Mahdi on April 11, 2025 in Columbia ...

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.

Officials in South Carolina gave remarks to the media on the firing squad execution of Mikal Mahdi, who was convicted of killing three people and numerous other "spree" crimes in 2004.