South Carolina plans to execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday for the murder of a police officer, draping a hood over his head and firing three bullets into his heart. The choice to die by firing squad ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed for the 2004 murder of 56-year-old James Myers A man facing the death penalty for committing two murders was executed by firing squad on Friday, the second such ...

Five states − South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and Idaho − have legalized firing squads as an execution method but Mahdi's will only be the fifth such execution since 1977.

Before that, no person had been killed by a firing squad in the United States in 15 years. By Eduardo Medina South Carolina executed another convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday night ...

Five states − South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and Idaho − have legalized firing squads as an execution method but Mahdi's is only the fifth such execution since 1977. A firing ...

FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair ...

While thousands of firearms were used in and around the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, few ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...