South Carolina plans to execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday for the murder of a police officer, draping a hood over his head and ...

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff ...

Gov. Little signed a law allowing individuals convicted of sexually abusing children 12 and younger to be sentenced with the ...

Mahdi’s scheduled execution comes soon after the nation’s first firing squad execution in 15 years, which South Carolina carried out on March 7. Five days later, Idaho’s Republican governor ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

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.

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- 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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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 ...

If convicted of the Idaho student murders, Bryan Kohberger may be given the death penalty. In Idaho, that now means death by ...