A South Carolina man on death row prepares to be put to death by firing squad, as his lawyer says the case is a matter of ...

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

Mikal Mahdi, who was facing the death penalty for committing two murders, was executed by firing squad on Friday in South ...

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

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - On Friday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections executed its second death row inmate by firing ...

South Carolina is set to execute 42-year-old Mikal Mahdi by firing squad for killing an off-duty police officer who was ...

A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on Friday, the second time the state will have carried out that method ...

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

President Trump's push for more federal and state executions marks a new chapter in the shifting politics of the death ...

Mahdi's death is the end of a busy time in South Carolina's death chamber. He is the fifth inmate killed since September after the state had not had any executions since 2011. No other inmates are ...

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 ...

A murderer who shot a police officer dead before burning his corpse has been executed by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi chose to ...