Email: [email protected] A death row inmate who was executed by a method only used five times in 50 years took his last breath on Friday (11 April). Mikal Mahdi was put on death row after ...

A death row inmate who was executed by a method only used five times in 50 years took his last breath on Friday (11 April). Mikal Mahdi was put on death row after claiming the lives of two people in ...

A death row inmate will take his last breath tonight (11 April) when he is executed via an uncommon method. Mikal Mahdi's execution will take place at a prison in Columbia, South Carolina, following a ...

Derek Pearson, 47, had denied attacking Steven Johnson in Carmelite Lane in March 2023 and lodged a special defence of self defence. Mr Johnson, 50, fell and struck his head and later died in ...

SHREVEPORT, La. – The Louisiana Supreme Court late Friday put the brakes on execution plans for two Caddo Parish death row inmates. The ruling puts the cases back before a Caddo District Court ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– A death row inmate set to die on Friday, April 11, filed a petition for clemency to stop his execution. Mikal Mahdi is set to be executed by firing squad. He was convicted ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - In just days before his scheduled execution, one South Carolina inmate on death row has filed a petition for clemency with Gov. Henry McMaster, asking to commute the ...

But in Georgia, execution alternatives are under debate. Death row inmate Michael Wade Nance has challenged federal courts to allow death by firing squad instead of lethal injection. AJC's Najja ...

The Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of Shahid Azeem, a Norwegian-Pakistani citizen, to life imprisonment. Azeem was convicted by the Additional Sessions Judge in Islamabad for the ...

There have been cases where individuals on death row were later found to be wrongfully convicted, often due to poor legal representation, coerced confessions, or mishandling of evidence.

One of the oldest living serial killers in the country uttered a death row confession after 17 years of keeping the gruesome slaying under wraps. Gary Michael Hilton, 78, was convicted for the ...