An inmate put to death last month in South Carolina's second firing squad execution was conscious and likely in extreme pain for up to a minute after the bullets missed their target, attorneys allege.

South Carolina executed a man by firing squad on Friday after appeals were denied by the state and U.S. Supreme Courts earlier this week. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was convicted in the 2004 killings of an ...

Mikal Mahdi died on April 11 after being shot by a three-person firing squad. But an autopsy revealed two wounds on his chest, not three. None of the bullets hit his heart directly, as is supposed ...

Mikal Mahdi reportedly “cried out” and flexed his arms once he was shot, according to a witness of the execution Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer ...

Mahdi was convicted of the 2004 killing of 56-year-old Capt. James Myers, an off-duty Orangeburg Public Safety officer and beloved father Mahdi was to sit restrained in a metal chair with a hood ...

Mikal Mahdi is scheduled to be executed by firing squad in South Carolina for the 2004 murder of a police officer. Mahdi's attorneys are seeking a reprieve, citing his troubled childhood ...

Mikal Mahdi cried out as the shots hit him, and his arms flexed. He groaned two more times about 45 seconds after that. His breaths continued for about 80 seconds before he appeared to take one ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, cried out as the bullets hit him and groaned twice before he took his final gasp of breath, the Associated Press reported. The firing squad execution of Mahdi on April 11 is the ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, had three slugs fired into his heart by trained correctional volunteers at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia and was pronounced dead at 6:05 p.m. for the ambush ...

Mikal Mahdi is shown at age 40 at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia in 2023. Courtesy Mikal Mahdi's attorneys COLUMBIA, S.C. Last month’s firing squad execution of Mikal Mahdi was ...

Ahmed Al-Hassan, an Iraqi Shia Muslim religious leader, became the most prominent of figures after he claimed to have been sent by the Imam Mahdi and that he is "the messianic al-Yamani".

Mikal Mahdi is set to be executed on Friday, April 11. He chose firing squad over lethal injection or electrocution, just as Sigmon did. Mahdi, 41, was convicted of the 2004 death of Orangeburg ...