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

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

Mikal Mahdi was executed on Friday night by firing squad in South Carolina for a pair of murders nearly 21 years ago. The ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mahdi is to be put to death with three bullets to the heart at 6 p.m. on April 11 at the Broad River Correctional Institution ...

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.

The others all occurred in Utah. This photo provided by South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Mikal Mahdi. South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP The firing squad is an execution ...