The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff ...

The first firing squad execution in over 15 years was carried out last month. It provides a glimpse into how such executions ...

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

South Carolina is set to execute 42-year-old Mikal Mahdi by firing squad for killing an off-duty police officer who was ...

Friday night, another South Carolina inmate died by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi was on death row for killing an Orangeburg ...

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

Mahdi is to be put to death with three bullets to the heart at 6 p.m. on April 11 at the Broad River Correctional Institution ...

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

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 ...

Mahdi confessed to the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer at the officer's Calhoun County shed. He is the fifth ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the 2004 murder of Orangeburg police captain James Myers during a multi-state crime ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the ...