Other bills would undermine public defense, eliminate the Innocence Inquiry Commission, and take away clemency.

Utah hasn't used a firing squad in over 15 years - but as the death date of Ralph Menzies' execution looms closer, a larger ...

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed on Sept. 5, but his lawyers say his deteriorating mental state, caused by ...

Mikal Mahdi, a South Carolina man executed by firing squad in April, was conscious and likely in extreme pain for up to a minute after the bullets missed their target and failed to quickly stop ...

An autopsy photo of Mikal Mahdi, who died by firing squad April 11, showed only two distinct wounds.

Mikal Mahdi's defense team/Provided “The second photograph is completely useless,” said Dr. Terri Haddix, a forensic pathologist commissioned by Stanko’s team, referring to the bottle photo.

SC officials describe firing squad execution Officials in South Carolina gave remarks to the media on the firing squad execution of Mikal Mahdi, who was convicted of killing three people and ...

His lawyers had wanted to argue about the state’s most recent execution by firing squad, saying Stanko changed his mind about dying by bullets because of accounts about the firing squad death of Mikal ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday refused to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days, saying the prisoner’s lawyers didn’t have eviden… ...