South Carolina plans to execute death row inmate Mikal Mahdi April 11. Here’s how Solicitor David Pascoe argued for the death ...

Editor’s note: South Carolina is scheduled to execute death row inmate Mikal Mahdi on April 11. This is a partial transcript of prosecutor Pascoe’s closing argument seeking the death penalty in 2006.

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

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

Mahdi chose a firing squad over lethal injection or electrocution, as Brad Sigmon did for his March 7 execution, which was ...

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

Death penalty cases here in South Carolina have resumed over the last year after a 13-year hiatus, sparking conversations and debate around the act of taking a human life.

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 ...

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

As South Carolina prepares for its fifth execution in seven months, Rev. Hillary Taylor, executive director of South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, writes that there’s another way.

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