COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - On Friday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections executed its second death row inmate by firing squad since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1976. His attorney ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — (AP) — A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the ...

Daniel Mitchell, 42, pleaded guilty Dec. 23 to conspiring to violate the civil rights of an inmate only referred to in court ...

Mahdi was convicted of the 2004 death of Orangeburg Public Safety officer James Myers. The Associated Press reported that ...

The 27-year-old victim was killed when she was shot once in the back, according to the 5th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.

A Greenville, South Carolina, man is headed to prison after he was convicted of criminal sexual conduct with a child.

Mahdi chose a firing squad over lethal injection or electrocution, as Brad Sigmon did for his March 7 execution, which was ...

Five South Carolina inmates have been charged with crimes committed while incarcerated, including murder and assaults on ...