ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A South Carolina man was sentenced to life in prison Monday for gunning down a New Mexico state ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by the state of South Carolina on April 11 for the violent killing of off-duty Orangeburg ...

A firing squad executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method ...

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

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

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

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WRDW/WAGT) - A Marion man will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing a police officer over 1,500 miles away. A judge sentenced Jaremy Smith to life in federal prison as ...

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

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

HE STI A South Carolina man who killed a New Mexico State Police officer found out his fate in Federal Court on Monday. Jaremy Smith, the confessed "Cop Killer," was sentenced to life in prison ...