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

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

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

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

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

A convicted cop killer who became the second death row inmate in South Carolina to die by firing squad chomped on a ribeye ...

Sigmon chose the firing squad out of fear of more suffering if given a lethal injection or put in the electric chair Barring any last-minute stay, the US State of South Carolina plans to execute ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C -- A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five ...

AND ONLINE AS WE WORK TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THAT. AND ANOTHER SOUTH CAROLINA INMATE WAS EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD YESTERDAY. MICHAEL MARTY WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING AN OFF DUTY POLICE ...