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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

In early March, the South Carolina Department of Corrections executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad, marking the first execution by that method in the state and the fifth overall since the United ...

South Carolina is one of five states that allow execution by firing squad and executed another man with the method last month. A South Carolina death row inmate whose attorneys say had a tortured ...

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded guilty to murder for ...