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

Mikal Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.

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

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

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 simultaneously with three bullets.

Friday night another South Carolina inmate died by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi was on death row for killing an Orangeburg ...

Mahdi was convicted of the 2004 death of Orangeburg Public Safety officer James Myers. The Associated Press reported that ...

South Carolina executed a man by firing squad on Friday after appeals were denied by the state and U.S. Supreme Courts earlier this week. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was convicted in the 2004 killings of an ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to die 20 years ago for the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer. He will be the fifth inmate executed by South Carolina in less than eight months as the state makes ...

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

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