The future of Alcatraz lies in one man’s hands. In 2023, as sea levels rose around the iconic island in San Francisco Bay, Pete Kelsey — a technologist specializing in 3D data capture — was ...

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

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to die 20 years ago for the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer. He will be the fifth inmate executed by South Carolina in less than eight months as the state makes ...

Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair. On March 7, Brad ...

in the corner of a room shared by the state's electric chair, "which can't be moved," according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections' execution protocols provided to USA TODAY.

firing squad or a new lethal injection protocol to carry out its first executions in nearly 13 years. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP, File) ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, cried out as the bullets hit him during the brutal execution. He gave no final statement and did not look to the nine witnesses in the room behind bulletproof glass. Mahdi groaned ...

If it proceeds, Mahdi’s execution would be the latest in a recent string of events that have put the spotlight on the firing squad as a handful of US death penalty states explore alternatives to ...

“What the state may not do, in my view, is allow Christian or Muslim inmates but not Buddhist inmates to have a religious adviser of their religion in the execution room,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh ...