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 ...

A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on Friday, the second time the state will have carried out that method in the past five weeks.

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

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

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

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

But Robertson’s lawyers say they need another 120 days to assess the South Carolina death row inmate’s mental competency ...

A bill moving in the state House this week would reintroduce the electric chair and firing squads as part of the death ...

Mahdi will be the second death row inmate in South Carolina this year to be killed by a firing squad if his execution goes forward as planned. AP On the opposite end, the prosecution called a ...

Presumably, the Court will also in the months and years ahead issue execution warrants for some of the other 27 men (no women ...

Twenty-six people remain on death row in South Carolina. All are convicted of murder. As of Friday, no more executions have been scheduled. South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty ...