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President Trump's push for more federal and state executions marks a new chapter in the shifting politics of the death ...
Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the 2004 murder of Orangeburg police captain James Myers during a multi-state crime ...
Friday night another South Carolina inmate died by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi was on death row for killing an Orangeburg ...
Mikal Mahdi, who was facing the death penalty for committing two murders, was executed by firing squad on Friday in South ...
A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago. It is the second time the ...
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, ...
Mahdi was convicted of the 2004 death of Orangeburg Public Safety officer James Myers. The Associated Press reported that police said Mahdi killed a store clerk in North Carolina and stole a car at ...
The execution of Mikal Mahdi, 42, will mark the second time in five weeks that the state has used a firing squad.
South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they ...
A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on Friday, the second time the state will have carried out that method ...