A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on Friday, the second time the state will have carried out that method in the past five weeks.

Friday night, another South Carolina inmate died by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi was on death row for killing an Orangeburg Department of Public Safety officer in 2004. Firing squad came about in South ...

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

South Carolina is set to execute 42-year-old Mikal Mahdi by firing squad for killing an off-duty police officer who was ...

A few more details are known about South Carolina's firing squad as the state prepares to carry out its second execution by that method.

Attorneys for a South Carolina death row inmate whose execution is imminent are making a last-ditch argument that their client is incompetent to be executed partly because of his belief that he is ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded guilty to ...

Pee Wee Gaskins was the friendliest and most sociable serial killer Dick Harpootlian has ever met. “You like killing, just ...

Exclusive: Rock Hill’s James “Jimmy” Robertson has spent 26 years on South Carolina’s death row after he was convicted in ...

He added that South Carolina’s execution process, in which a death row inmate chooses how to be killed, “shows that we’re on this sort of fruitless search to find the right way to kill people.

Twenty-six people remain on death row in South Carolina. All are convicted of murder ... say while they are fighting for the rights of inmates, they understand the pain victims’ families ...