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

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

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 ...

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

The Virginia man convicted in 2004 of murdering an off-duty Orangeburg Police captain is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. unless a ...

Mikal Mahdi, who was facing the death penalty for committing two murders, was executed by firing squad on Friday in South ...

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

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

A firing squad executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method ...

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

Mikal Mahdi is set to be executed on Friday, April 11. (Photo courtesy of the South Carolina Department of Corrections) FOX News obtained a statement from David Weiss, one of Mahdi’s lawyers ...

Mahdi received the death penalty for killing a police officer in 2004. He is the second death row inmate to die by firing squad in South Carolina. The first was Brad Sigmon in March 2025.