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

Capital punishment could soon look a lot different in North Carolina. A House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday plans to discuss ...

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

COLUMBIA, SC - Mikal Mahdi, convicted of killing an off-duty police officer in South Carolina, was executed by the firing ...

Mikal Mahdi gorged on ribeye steak, mushroom risotto, broccoli, collard greens, cheesecake and sweet tea as a his last meal on death row in South Carolina before he was executed ...

The March 7 execution of Brad Sigmon marked the first execution by firing squad since 2010. Before Sigmon, only three people i the U.S. had been executed by firing squad since the 1970s.

Mahdi would be the fifth person to be executed by firing squad in the U.S. since 1976 – with the first three carried out in Utah – and the second in South Carolina after Brad Sigmon ...

Mahdi was convicted of the 2004 death of Orangeburg Public Safety officer James Myers. The Associated Press reported that police said Mahdi killed a store clerk in North Carolina and stole a car at ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

Two execution are scheduled for the second week of April in Florida and South Carolina, one of them by firing squad.

Mahdi confessed to the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer at the officer's Calhoun County shed. He is the fifth person in South Carolina to have their final appeal rejected by the state ...

On March 7, Brad Sigmon was executed in the first U.S. firing squad death in 15 years and only the fourth since 1976. The others all occurred in Utah. READ MORE: South Carolina prisoner is first ...