South Carolina is one of five states that allow execution by firing squad and executed another man with the method last month. A South Carolina death row inmate whose attorneys say had a tortured ...

Lawyers for a Florida murderer on death row are trying to halt his scheduled execution, saying his weight and health conditions could lead to a botched lethal injection. In court documents ...

South Carolina executed another convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday night, the second such execution in the state. The inmate, Mikal Mahdi, 41, was declared dead shortly after 6 p.m ...

This March 2019 photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state’s electric chair in Columbia, S.C. (Kinard Lisbon/South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP, File) ...

This undated photo provided by the Indiana Department of Correction shows Benjamin Ritchie, whose execution has been scheduled by the Indiana Supreme Court following his conviction for the 2000 ...

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.

[1] The most notorious death execution in BC was about 399 BC when the Greek philosopher Socrates was required to drink poison for heresy and corruption of youth.[2] Mosaic Law codified many ...

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A man who was handed the death penalty for the killing of a cop, as well as a store clerk, has chosen an unconventional way to complete his sentence. The execution of death row inmate Mikal Mahdi, of ...

The 37-year-old, a resident of Kiharu, Murang'a county, was scheduled to be executed on Monday, March 17, 2025, but the authorities in Vietnam postponed her date with destiny following Kenya’s ...

China’s execution of four Canadians has put the spotlight on its “conveyor belt” process where “mobile death vans” are said to be used due to high numbers being killed. Canada reacted ...