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

A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate. Friday's execution will be the second time in the past five weeks the ...

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

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 "appropriate punishment" rather than guilt.

South Carolina plans to execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday for the murder of a police officer, draping a hood over his head and ...

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.

A few more details are known about South Carolina's firing squad as the state prepares to carry out its second execution by ...

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its ...

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 ...

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

Shooting prisoners to death has consequences for the reputation of the state,” a national death penalty expert said.

A second death row inmate in South Carolina has chosen execution by firing squad. It comes just weeks after the first ...