Representatives for Tennessee death row prisoners have formally asked the state to pause all executions, again, until next ...

After 15 years without a single firing squad execution in the US, Mikal Mahdi is set to become the second in two months.

A convicted cop killer who became the second death row inmate in South Carolina to die by firing squad chomped on a ribeye ...

A South Carolina man — who was convicted of two 2004 murders, including the death of an off-duty cop — opted for a lavish ...

While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the 2004 murder of Orangeburg police captain James Myers during a multi-state crime ...

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AND ANOTHER SOUTH CAROLINA INMATE WAS EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD YESTERDAY. MICHAEL MARTY WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING AN ...

Attorneys appealed to the Tennessee governor to pause all executions until next year to allow for courts to review a new ...

Mikal Mahdi’s execution came about a month after the first person in state history was killed in such a manner. Before that, ...