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

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

Mikal Mahdi is to be executed by firing squad in South Carolina on April 11 for the 2004 murder of Capt. James Myers of the ...

South Carolina is set to execute 42-year-old Mikal Mahdi by firing squad for killing an off-duty police officer who was ...

The first firing squad execution in over 15 years was carried out last month. It provides a glimpse into how such executions ...

Mikal Mahdi, who was convicted of the 2004 murder of an off-duty police officer, is to be put to death by firing squad Friday ...

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its ...

A man convicted of the 2004 murder of an off-duty police officer is to be put to death by firing squad Friday in South ...

A few more details are known about South Carolina's firing squad as the state prepares to carry out its second execution by ...

Mikal 41, chose the firing squad over lethal injection or the electric chair. South Carolina is one of five states that ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's highest court on Monday rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who 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 ...