Mikal Mahdi, who was convicted of two 2004 murders, including the death of an off-duty cop, chose an upscale final meal ahead ...

South Carolina gives its death row inmates a choice between lethal injection, the electric chair and the firing squad. Mahdi ...

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.

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by firing squad tonight in South Carolina, after he was sentenced to death for murdering a ...

South Carolina prison officials will put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they ...

The death row inmate is being held at a prison in Columbia, South Carolina, for the murder of a police captain ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, is to be executed at 6pm (10pm UK time) at a prison in state capital Columbia for the murder of 56-year-old ...

A South Carolina man on death row prepares to be put to death by firing squad, as his lawyer says the case is a matter of "appropriate punishment" rather than guilt.

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...

South Carolina is legally required to keep some protocols secret as it prepares to put a man to death by firing squad for the ...

Victor Perez, who also has cerebral palsy, remained hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday after having nine bullets removed from his body and having his leg amputated ...