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

Mikal Mahdi, 41, was sentenced to death for the brutal slaying of an off-duty cop in South Carolina in 2004 after he'd ...

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.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WACH) — South Carolina has executed Mikal Mahdi, the second inmate in the state’s history to die by firing ...

A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on Friday, the second time the state will have carried out that method ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, is set to die by firing squad 6 p.m. Friday. The execution will mark the second time the state will have ...

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