The first firing squad execution in over 15 years was carried out last month. It provides a glimpse into how such executions ...

Mahdi's death is the end of a busy time in South Carolina's death chamber. He is the fifth inmate killed since September after the state had not had any executions since 2011. No other inmates are out ...

It was the second time someone was executed by firing squad in S.C. in five weeks and only the fifth time in the U.S. since 1976.

Mahdi's death is the end of a busy time in South Carolina's death chamber. He will be the fifth inmate killed since September after the state had not had any executions since 2011. No other ...

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, left.

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.

After 13 years of there being no executions in South Carolina due to legal battles and the inability to obtain the necessary ...

Bryan Stirling, head of state prison system for the past decade, is expected to be Trump's pick as top federal law ...

Mahdi's death is the end of a busy time in South Carolina's death chamber. He is the fifth inmate killed since September after the state had not had any executions since 2011. No other inmates are ...