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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

South Carolina is legally required to keep some protocols secret as it prepares to put a man to death by firing squad for the ...

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 ...

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