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Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...
Mikal Mahdi’s execution came about a month after the first person in state history was killed in such a manner. Before that, ...
The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second ...
Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by the state of South Carolina on April 11 for the violent killing of off-duty Orangeburg ...
A South Carolina man on death row prepares to be put to death by firing squad, as his lawyer says the case is a matter of ...
Mikal Mahdi was executed on Friday night by firing squad in South Carolina for a pair of murders nearly 21 years ago. The ...
South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they ...
The choice to die by firing squad – rather than lethal injection or the electric chair – was Mahdi’s own, his attorney said last month: “Faced with barbaric and inhumane choices ...
For the second time in 36 days, a firing squad execution has been carried out in South Carolina. Mikal Mahdi, 42, died Friday ...
The execution of Mikal Mahdi, 42, will mark the second time in five weeks that the state has used a firing squad.