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 ...

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

Mahdi was convicted of the 2004 death of Orangeburg Public Safety officer James Myers. The Associated Press reported that ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair. On March 7, Brad ...

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 ...

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