Mikal Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.

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

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 firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks.