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

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.

Mikal Mahdi is scheduled to be executed by firing squad in South Carolina for the 2004 murder of a police officer. Mahdi's attorneys are seeking a reprieve, citing his troubled childhood, a lack of ...

A firing squad 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 past five weeks.

South Carolina executed a man by firing squad on Friday after appeals were denied by the state and U.S. Supreme Courts earlier this week. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was convicted in the 2004 killings of an ...

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

Five states − South Carolina, Mississippi ... The firing squad put a hood over 42-year-old Mikal Mahdi's head and shot him in the heart simultaneously with three bullets, and he was pronounced ...

Mikal Mahdi is scheduled to be executed by firing squad in South Carolina for the 2004 murder of a police officer. Mahdi's attorneys are seeking a reprieve, citing his troubled childhood ...