For the second time in 36 days, a firing squad execution has been carried out in South Carolina. Mikal Mahdi, 42, died Friday ...

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

Mikal Mahdi, who was convicted of two 2004 murders, including the death of an off-duty cop, chose an upscale final meal ahead ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the 2004 murder of Orangeburg police captain James Myers during a multi-state crime ...

A man convicted of murdering a South Carolina police officer was executed by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was shot in the ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed for the 2004 murder of 56-year-old James Myers A man facing the death penalty for committing two murders was executed by firing squad on Friday, the second such ...

A firing squad executed a South Carolina man Friday who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past ...

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(The Center Square) – For the second time in 36 days, a firing squad execution has been carried out in South Carolina. Mikal Mahdi, 42, died Friday night in Columbia less than four minutes after ...

In South Carolina, a firing squad shot and killed a death row prisoner on Friday. Witnesses report Mikal Mahdi cried out when multiple bullets struck him; he groaned twice and continued breathing ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, chose to be killed by a firing squad over a lethal injection or the electric chair, which his attorney, assistant federal public defender David Weiss, called the “lesser of ...