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

A firing squad executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method ...

The first firing squad execution in over 15 years was carried out last month. It provides a glimpse into how such executions ...

Mikal Mahdi was executed on Friday night by firing squad in South Carolina for a pair of murders nearly 21 years ago. The ...

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

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

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed for the 2004 murder of 56-year-old James Myers A man facing the death penalty for committing ...

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

The execution of Mikal Mahdi, 42, will mark the second time in five weeks that the state has used a firing squad.

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 choice to die by firing squad – rather than lethal injection or the electric chair – was Mahdi’s own, his attorney said last month: “Faced with barbaric and inhumane choices ...

Mahdi is to be put to death with three bullets to the heart at 6 p.m. on April 11 at the Broad River Correctional Institution ...