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

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.

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.

While North Carolina hasn’t carried out an execution since 2006, the bill would legalize additional ways to carry out the ...

Before that, no person had been killed by a firing squad in the United States in 15 years. By Eduardo Medina South Carolina executed another convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday night ...

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 ...