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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.