The first firing squad execution in over 15 years was carried out last month. It provides a glimpse into how such executions ...

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

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

Friday night, another South Carolina inmate died by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi was on death row for killing an Orangeburg Department of Public Safety officer in 2004. Firing squad came about in South ...

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

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

South Carolina’s highest court has rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad this week for the ambush killing of a police officer.

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 ...

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 ...

Five states − South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and Idaho − have legalized firing squads as an execution method but Mahdi's is only the fifth such execution since 1977. A firing ...