A convicted cop killer who became the second death row inmate in South Carolina to die by firing squad chomped on a ribeye ...

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 ...

Mikal Mahdi’s execution came about a month after the first person in state history was killed in such a manner. Before that, ...

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

Mikal Mahdi, who was facing the death penalty for committing two murders, was executed by firing squad on Friday in South ...

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 ...

The execution of Mikal Mahdi, 42, will mark the second time in five weeks that the state has used a firing squad.

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by firing squad tonight in South Carolina, after he was sentenced to death for murdering a ...

The choice to die by firing squad – rather than lethal injection or the electric chair – was Mahdi’s own, his attorney said last month: “Faced with barbaric and inhumane choices ...

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