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

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

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

A murderer who shot a police officer dead before burning his corpse has been executed by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi chose to ...

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

Mahdi chose the firing squad. The first execution by firing squad in the United States ... Attorney General Pam Bondi ...

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

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

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina is legally required to keep some protocols secret as it prepares to put a man to death ...

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 ...

Only four people have been executed by firing squad since then, including Brad Sigmon in South Carolina last month, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The other executions all ...