COLUMBIA, S.C. — A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second ...

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 ...

For the second time in 36 days, a firing squad execution has been carried out in South Carolina. Mikal Mahdi, 42, died Friday ...

South Carolina shrimpers say increased tariffs on imports would help the state’s struggling shrimp industry.  But in other ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - In Death Penalty News this month, Randy Poindexter describes his experience with solitary confinement and ...

A man facing the death penalty for committing two murders was executed by firing squad on Friday, the second such execution in the US state of South Carolina this year.

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the 2004 murder of Orangeburg police captain James Myers during a multi-state crime ...

A man convicted of murdering a South Carolina police officer was executed by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was shot in the ...

Friday night another South Carolina inmate died by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi was on death row for killing an Orangeburg ...