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South Carolina firing squad executes death row inmate despite calls for clemency
Friday night another South Carolina inmate died by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi was on death row for killing an Orangeburg ...
South Carolina executes second man by firing squad in 5 weeks
A firing squad executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method ...
US Man Executed By Firing Squad, Second Such Execution In 15 Years
South Carolina gives its death row inmates a choice between lethal injection, the electric chair and the firing squad. Mahdi ...
Mikal Mahdi, South Carolina inmate convicted in two separate 2004 murders, executed 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 ...
Mikal Mahdi Executed by Firing Squad in South Carolina: What We Know
Mikal Mahdi was executed on Friday night by firing squad in South Carolina for a pair of murders nearly 21 years ago. The ...
South Carolina Executes Second Inmate by Firing Squad
Mikal Mahdi’s execution came about a month after the first person in state history was killed in such a manner. Before that, ...
South Carolina kills inmate Mikal Mahdi by firing squad in state’s second execution in a hail of bullets in 5 weeks
South Carolina kills inmate Mikal Mahdi by firing squad in state’s second execution in a hail of bullets in 5 weeks ...
South Carolina prepares for second firing squad execution
A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on Friday, the second time the state will have carried out that method in the past five weeks.Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to die 20 years ago for ...
Mikal Mahdi executed by firing squad in South Carolina for off-duty officer's brutal murder
The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff shot him in the heart at the same time.