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Friday night another South Carolina inmate died by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi was on death row for killing an Orangeburg ...
Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the 2004 murder of Orangeburg police captain James Myers during a multi-state crime ...
A CONVICTED cop killer was executed by a firing squad in South Carolina as officials ramp up their return to the death ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. - In Death Penalty News this month, Randy Poindexter describes his experience with solitary confinement and ...
Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death after he ambushed and executed Orangeburg Department of Public Safety Capt. James Myers ...
In South Carolina, a firing squad shot and killed a death row prisoner on Friday. Witnesses report Mikal Mahdi cried out when multiple bullets struck him; he groaned twice and continued breathing for ...
A murderer who shot a police officer dead before burning his corpse has been executed by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi chose to ...
Mikal Mahdi, who was facing the death penalty for committing two murders, was executed by firing squad on Friday in South ...
Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed for the 2004 murder ... South Carolina gives its death row inmates a choice between lethal injection, the electric chair and the firing squad. Mahdi chose the firing ...
Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair. On March 7, Brad ...
A man convicted of murdering a South Carolina police officer was executed by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was shot in the ...