Mikal Mahdi gave no final statement and did not ... repression in the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. But South Carolina lawmakers saw it as the quickest and most humane method, especially ...

COLUMBIA, SC - Mikal Mahdi, convicted of killing an off-duty police officer in South Carolina, was executed by the firing ...

The Garden at Gethsemane was a place where Jesus had often gone with his disciples to pray. He longed for them to pray with ...

I lived in a concrete cell in South Carolina. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more than 3,000 days, in solitary confinement.

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death after he ambushed and executed Orangeburg Department of Public Safety Capt. James Myers ...

In South Carolina, a firing squad shot and killed a death row prisoner on Friday. Witnesses report Mikal Mahdi cried out when multiple bullets struck him; he groaned twice and continued breathing for ...

For the second time in 36 days, a firing squad execution has been carried out in South Carolina. Mikal Mahdi, 42, died Friday ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - In Death Penalty News this month, Randy Poindexter describes his experience with solitary confinement and ...

At 6:01 p.m. Friday, in a crack of rifle shots, Mikal Mahdi was executed inside of the Broad River Road Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. The ...

A man convicted of murdering a South Carolina police officer was executed by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was shot in the ...