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

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 ...

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

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by the state of South Carolina on April 11 for the violent killing of off-duty Orangeburg ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...