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

Mikal Mahdi, who was convicted of two 2004 murders, including the death of an off-duty cop, chose an upscale final meal ahead ...

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago. It is the second time the ...

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

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

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

Each death penalty case is autho­rized by the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., in con­sul­ta­tion with local U.S.

There is a call for Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to pause executions until a judge reviews the state's new lethal injection ...

The execution of Mikal Mahdi, 42, will mark the second time in five weeks that the state has used a firing squad.