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, ...

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

Kevin Fisher writes about the recent onslaught of executions in South Carolina, and one case that undermines the justice system's highest level of punishment.

Mahdi was convicted of the 2004 death of Orangeburg Public Safety officer James Myers. The Associated Press reported that ...

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 ...

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

South Carolinian Randy Poindexter writes about the effects 16 years of solitary confinement had on him ahead of South ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to die 20 years ago for the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer. He will be the fifth inmate executed by South Carolina in less than eight months as the state makes ...

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