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

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.

There is a call for Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to pause executions until a judge reviews the state's new lethal injection ...

South Carolina plans to execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday for the murder of a police officer, draping a hood over his head and ...

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

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

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare ...

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