South Carolina’s highest court denies appeal to stay upcoming firing squad execution for cop killer
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 ...
A second South Carolina death row inmate chooses execution by firing squad
A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its ...
A second person on South Carolina’s death row has chosen to be executed by firing squad
Mikal Mahdi, who killed a South Carolina police officer during a multi-state crime spree, has chosen to die by firing squad.
South Carolina death row inmate invokes 'sovereign citizen' defense in bid to avoid execution
A last-ditch effort from attorneys of a death row inmate argue that his beliefs about being a "sovereign citizen" could be ...
South Carolina’s highest court refuses to stop another firing squad execution
Mahdi confessed to the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer at the officer's Calhoun County shed. He is the fifth ...
I saw South Carolina use a firing squad to execute a man. I am sick with rage. | Opinion
I watched my client's execution by firing squad. He chose it after three lethal injection executions left men lingering on a ...