Why death row inmate has chosen gruesome execution method just weeks after it was used for first time in 15 years
South Carolina death row inmate Mikal Mahdi has chosen to be executed via firing squad just weeks after Brad Sigmon was ...
Minute-by-minute account of last firing squad death as death row inmate chooses execution method
Shortly after Brad Sigmon was executed by firing squad, fellow death row inmate Mikal Mahdi has also chosen it ...
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A second South Carolina death row inmate chooses execution by firing squad
Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded guilty to murder for killing a police officer in 2004, is scheduled to be executed April 11.
Second South Carolina Man Chooses Firing Squad for Execution
The option of a firing squad was relatively new in South Carolina, where lethal injection and the electric chair also remain available choices for death row inmates. Mahdi’s decision is particularly ...
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Delusions or domestic terrorism? Will a death row inmate’s anti-government views save him?
On Dec. 8, 2003, a conflict in Abbeville, South Carolina, over 20 feet of land turned deadly. Steven Bixby ambushed and killed Abbeville County sheriff’s Sgt. Danny Wilson and state constable Donnie ...
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Man on death row chooses gruelling execution method which has only been used on four inmates in the past 50 years
Mikal Mahdi murdered an off-duty police officer by shooting him eight times and dousing him in diesel before setting him ...
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