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

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

South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by the state of South Carolina on April 11 for the violent killing of off-duty Orangeburg Public Safety Officer James Myers in 2004.

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

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...

South Carolina gives its death row inmates a choice between lethal injection, the electric chair and the firing squad. Mahdi ...

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