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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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, ...

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 ...

South Carolina plans to execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday for the murder of a police officer, draping a hood over his head and ...

On Monday, Jaremy Smith, the man charged with killing a New Mexico State Police officer, is expected to plead guilty and ...

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 ...

He will be the fifth inmate executed by South Carolina in less than eight months ... appeals during an unintended 13-year pause on the death penalty. Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets ...