South Carolina gives its death row inmates a choice between lethal injection, the electric chair and the firing squad. Mahdi ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by the state of South Carolina on April 11 for the violent killing of off-duty Orangeburg Public Safety Officer James Myers in 2004.

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

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff shot him in the heart at the same time.

South Carolina’s elected treasurer is asking the state’s highest court to stop a hearing later this month to start the ...

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

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COLUMBIA, S.C -- Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on Friday, the second time the state will have ...

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 "appropriate punishment" rather than guilt.

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...

South Carolina Democrats are losing a powerful member of the party as First Circuit Solicitor David Pascoe announced on ...