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 ...

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. — Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set to ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is legally required to keep some protocols secret as it prepares to put a man to death by ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– A death row inmate set to die on Friday, April 11, filed a petition for clemency to stop his execution. Mikal Mahdi is set to be executed by firing squad. He was convicted of ...

The daughter of one of the victims of a man set to be executed Friday night by firing squad says she feels content about what is to come.

I lived in a concrete cell. Twenty-three hours a day, every day, for more than 3,000 days, South Carolina kept me in solitary ...

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 ...

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

South Carolina's highest court on Monday rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad later this week for the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer.

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 ...