Mahdi, 41, had the choice of dying by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. He will be the first inmate to be executed in the state since Brad Sigmon chose to be shot to death on March ...

But Robertson’s lawyers say they need another 120 days to assess the South Carolina death row inmate’s mental competency about his recent decision to fire them and then die by electric chair ...

Legislation passed in 2000 allows for lethal injection as an alternative to the electric chair. The choice is left up to the inmate. All executions, injection or electric chair, are carried out ...

FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair ...

Mahdi had the choice of dying by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. Mahdi is the first inmate to be executed in the state since Brad Sigmon chose to die by bullets on March 7.

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Mahdi, 41, had the choice of dying by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. He will be the first inmate to be executed in the state since Brad Sigmon chose to be shot to death on ...