The first firing squad execution in over 15 years was carried out last month. It provides a glimpse into how such executions ...

The execution of Mikal Mahdi, 42, will mark the second time in five weeks that the state has used a firing squad.

None of the previous 10 prepared me for watching the firing squad ... And the white target with the red bullseye that had ...

A few more details are known about South Carolina's firing squad as the state prepares to carry out its second execution by that method.

Brad Sigmon sat strapped to a metal chair, his hands bound, a thick black hood covering his face ... Just the sudden, ...

The inmate, Mikal Mahdi, 41, was declared dead shortly after 6 p.m. after a firing squad shot three bullets at a target placed over his heart, the State Department of Corrections said. A judge had ...

Five states − South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and Idaho − have legalized firing squads as an execution method but Mahdi's will only be the fifth such execution since 1977.