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 ...

"That sense of humanity seems not to exist in Mikal Deen Mahdi" Once one of the busiest for executions, South Carolina resumed executions in September after a 13-year pause caused in part by the ...

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 Mahdi. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP) Vivian Lovingood ...

“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 ...

South Carolina Department of Corrections Mikal Mahdi has been described as a cold-blooded killer. In 2006, Mahdi was convicted and sentenced to death in South Carolina for the murder of an off ...

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 ...

Mikal Mahdi’s execution will take place April ... On July 17, 2004, he carjacked someone at an intersection in Columbia, South Carolina. On the run from those crimes, Mahdi hid in the shed ...

This photo provided by South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Mikal Mahdi. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP) Prosecutors called 28 witnesses for Circuit Court Judge Clifton ...

Mikal Mahdi is scheduled to die April 11 for the ... He would be the fifth inmate South Carolina has executed in less than seven months. Brad Sigmon chose to be shot to death on March 7, while ...