COLUMBIA, SC - Mikal Mahdi, convicted of killing an off-duty police officer in South Carolina, was executed by the firing ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second ...

For the second time in 36 days, a firing squad execution has been carried out in South Carolina. Mikal Mahdi, 42, died Friday ...

In South Carolina, a firing squad shot and killed a death row prisoner on Friday. Witnesses report Mikal Mahdi cried out when multiple bullets struck him; he groaned twice and continued breathing for ...

Editor’s note: South Carolina is scheduled to execute death row inmate Mikal Mahdi on April 11. This is a partial transcript of prosecutor Pascoe’s closing argument seeking the death penalty ...

Mikal Mahdi gave no final statement and did not ... repression in the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. But South Carolina lawmakers saw it as the quickest and most humane method, especially ...

(The Center Square) – For the second time in 36 days, a firing squad execution has been carried out in South Carolina. Mikal Mahdi, 42, died Friday night in Columbia less than four minutes after ...

Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 14 other people are scheduled to be put to death in eight states during t ...