South Carolina inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets ...

He is scheduled to be executed on April 11. South Carolina law requires that death row inmates choose their method of execution between electric chair, lethal injection and firing ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for killing an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in Calhoun County, South Carolina.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The attorneys of convicted killer Mikal Mahdi, are asking the South Carolina Supreme Court to stop his ...

(South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP) This photo provided by South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Mikal ...

A South Carolina man will be put to death next month after spending nearly 20 years on death row. 41-year-old Mikal D. Mahdi ...

Mikal Mahdi, convicted of murdering an Orangeburg police officer, is scheduled to die on April 11; he's among 26 people awaiting execution ...

“That sense of humanity seems not to exist in Mikal Deen Mahdi.” COLUMBIA, S.C. — A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth ...

A South Carolina inmate is set to become the fifth person to be put to death since the state resumed executions in September after a 13-year pause.

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in ...

This photo provided by South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Mikal Mahdi. Credit: AP Mahdi spent most of his life from age 14 to 21 in prison and spent months in solitary confinement ...

This photo provided by South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Mikal Mahdi. Credit: AP Mahdi then set Myers' body on fire and fled. Myers' wife found her husband dead in the same shed they ...