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 ...

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

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

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

South Carolina’s highest court has rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad ...

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 ...