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

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

Mikal Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.

Friday night, another South Carolina inmate died by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi was on death row for killing an Orangeburg Department of Public Safety officer in 2004. Firing squad came about in South ...

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff ...

South Carolina’s highest court has rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad this week for the ambush killing of a police officer.

South Carolina resumed executions with the firing squad killing of Brad Sigmon last month. Mikal Madhi’s execution date is ...

It was the second time someone was executed by firing squad in S.C. in five weeks and only the fifth time in the U.S. since 1976.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on ...

Mikal Mahdi is scheduled to be executed by firing squad in South Carolina for the 2004 murder of a police officer. Mahdi's attorneys are seeking a reprieve, citing his troubled childhood ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the ...