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

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

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.

Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set to kill a South ...