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 ...

South Carolina will execute a man by firing squad for the second time in two months on Friday, when Mikal Mahdi is scheduled to die. Before Brad Sigmon was executed at a state prison in Columbia ...

(South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP) This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state’s death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina is legally required to keep some protocols secret as it prepares to put a man to death by firing squad for the murder of a public safety officer, but the ...

Previous Execution Reveals How South Carolina Will Put 2nd Inmate to Death by Firing Squad COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina is legally required to keep some protocols secret as it prepares ...

Mikal Mahdi is scheduled to be executed by firing squad in South Carolina for the 2004 murder of a police officer. Mahdi's attorneys are seeking a reprieve, citing his troubled childhood ...

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The South Carolina Supreme Court refused an appeal made in an attempt to block the firing squad execution later this week for a man who ambushed and killed an off-duty police officer. Mikal Mahdi ...