South Carolina prison officials will put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday at the Broad River Correctional Institute in ...

Some 13 years on from that landmark case, a Louisiana teenager accused of murder made headlines when he survived a ...

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

South Carolina resumed executions with the firing squad killing of Brad Sigmon last month. Mikal Madhi’s execution date is days away.

A murderer who shot a police officer dead before burning his corpse has been executed by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi chose to ...

James Osgood, convicted in 2014 for a gruesome rape and murder, was executed by lethal injection in Alabama. He sought ...

South Carolina’s highest court has rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad this week for the ambush killing of a police officer.

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 weeks. Mikal Mahdi ...

JOE Ingle swore he would never watch a friend die. But in 1988, he had to break that rule. Willie Darden, on Florida’s death ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on Friday, the second time the state will ...

The other executions all occurred in Utah ... than those he had seen using lethal injection and the electric chair. “The time from the shots being fired to the time death was declared was ...

I watched my client's execution by firing squad. He chose it after three lethal injection executions left men lingering on a ...