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

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

Mikal Mahdi was executed on Friday night by firing squad in South Carolina for a pair of murders nearly 21 years ago. The ...

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

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

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.

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

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

After the Table Rock Complex fires consumed more than 15,000 acres in Pickens and Greenville counties, the South Carolina Forestry Commission announced the blazes have been fully contained.

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

“All that storm debris will be there for years to come, increasing the fire danger considerably,” Easterling said. The two large fires in South Carolina continued to burn Thursday. The Table ...