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

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by the state of South Carolina on April 11 for the violent killing of off-duty Orangeburg ...

Mikal Mahdi was executed by firing squad on April 11 in South Carolina for the 2004 murder of Captain James Myers of the ...

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 ...

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

Mikal Mahdi was executed by South Carolina on April 11 for the July 2004 slaying of Orangeburg police Capt. James Myers. He ...

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

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

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