Lawyers for Mikal Mahdi, a man who was executed by firing squad in South Carolina last month, are calling his death a "botched execution." Mahdi’s lawyers said the bullets that were meant to hit ...

Mikal Mahdi was executed on April 11, becoming the second man in South Carolina to be executed by a three-person firing squad this year after admitting to killing an off-duty police officer in 2004.

Lawyers for Indiana death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie are seeking a last-minute execution pause from the U.S. Supreme Court to allow evidence of the inmate’s “serious brain damage” to be ...

Courtesy Mikal Mahdi's attorneys COLUMBIA, S.C. Last month’s firing squad execution of Mikal Mahdi was a “massive botch” that left the convicted murderer in excruciating, conscious pain for ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Attorneys for a Utah man who has been on death row for 37 years are due before a state judge Wednesday as they seek to spare the convicted murderer from execution because ...

Gulf War veteran Jeffrey G. Hutchinson, who was convicted of one of Florida’s most heinous family massacres, was executed Thursday evening following the signing of a death warrant by Florida Gov.

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — An Army combat veteran whose Gulf War experience triggered severe mental problems is scheduled to be executed Thursday in Florida for the shotgun killings of his girlfriend ...

Michael Bolton has glioblastoma, a treatment-resistant brain cancer that was behind the emergency surgery he had 16 months ago. After that surgery, during which a tumor was removed in its entirety ...

Masoud Langarneshin, Mohsen's father, released a video in the days before the execution claiming his son had been sentenced to death without a fair trial. His mother, who issued a public appeal ...

(WVUE) - In a heartbreaking second day of testimony during Bunnak “Hannah” Landon’s murder trial ... in the home shared with her father, Michael Fontenelle, and his girlfriend, Hannah ...

The kind of place where two people can build a beautiful life. Michael and Natalie Cochran had done exactly that. A dream home. A growing business. Two beautiful kids. And then, everything changed.