If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

Transparency should be the norm in government, and quite frankly, non-negotiable when the state is taking a life.

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Mikal Mahdi murdered an off-duty police officer by shooting him eight times and dousing him in diesel before setting him ...

Mahdi, 41, had the choice of dying by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. He will be the first inmate to be ...

South Carolina death row inmate has chosen execution by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi, 41, will be put to death on April 11 after ...

No South Carolina governor has offered clemency in the 47 executions in the state since the death penalty resumed in the United States in 1976.

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the killing of James Myers, a South Carolina police officer, and burning his body.