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

It was the second time someone was executed by a firing squad in SC in five weeks and only the fifth in the U.S. since 1976.

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

South Carolina’s elected treasurer is asking the state’s highest court to stop a hearing later this month to start the ...

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

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare ...

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff shot him in the heart at the same time.

A South Carolina man on death row prepares to be put to death by firing squad, as his lawyer says the case is a matter of "appropriate punishment" rather than guilt.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — (AP) — Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, is to be executed at 6pm (10pm UK time) at a prison in state capital Columbia for the murder of 56-year-old ...