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

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

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...

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

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

COLUMBIA, S.C. — (AP) — Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is ...

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 ...

South Carolina’s highest court refuses to stop another firing squad execution - Mikal Mahdi has one more opportunity to live ...

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

South Carolina’s highest court has rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad ...