South Carolina executed a man by firing squad on Friday after appeals were denied by the state and U.S. Supreme Courts earlier this week. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was convicted in the 2004 killings of an ...

A convicted cop killer who became the second death row ... a convenience store clerk in North Carolina. Mahdi shot the clerk twice in the head. He was later arrested in Florida while driving ...

A Salisbury mother questions the justice system after her son's alleged killer reportedly had dozens of arrests.

A South Carolina cop killer refused to offer remorse for his ... Mahdi's home state, and went to North Carolina. It was there that he shot the store clerk, Christopher Jason Boggs, before ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — At 6:01 p.m. Friday, in a crack of rifle shots, Mikal Mahdi was executed inside of the Broad River Road Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. The convicted ...

Mahdi was sentenced to death following a 2004 crime spree across five states. In Winston Salem, North Carolina, Mahdi shot and killed Christopher Boggs, a gas station clerk before ambushing and ...

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