SC Gov Henry McMaster has to pick a new prison director who will maintain low recidivism Stirling ushered in during his ...

A scheme to smuggle drugs into a federal prison in South Carolina failed when a drone crashed. The plan then backfired on the ...

The man who has led South Carolina prisons for more than a decade was named as the top federal prosecutor for the state on ...

AND ONLINE AS WE WORK TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THAT. AND ANOTHER SOUTH CAROLINA INMATE WAS EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD YESTERDAY. MICHAEL MARTY WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING AN OFF DUTY POLICE ...

Boggs was shot in the head twice while checking Mahdi's ID, according to The AP. SECOND SOUTH CAROLINA INMATE CHOOSES EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD Mahdi's lawyers entered a final appeal to the South ...

The execution on Friday marked the second time a South Carolina inmate has been put to death by firing squad in the past five weeks and the fifth execution overall in the state over the past eight ...

South Carolina executed a man by firing squad on Friday after appeals were denied by the state and U.S. Supreme Courts earlier this week. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was convicted in the 2004 killings of an ...

Sister Pamela Smith, left, and Brian Hansen demonstrate outside the site of the scheduled execution of South Carolina inmate Mikal Mahdi in Columbia, S.C., Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/David ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina kills inmate Mikal Mahdi by firing squad in state’s second execution in a hail of bullets in 5 weeks. Got a question? Put a reporter on it. Ever think of a ...

Firing squad came about in South Carolina after the state couldn't get ... say while they are fighting for the rights of inmates, they understand the pain victims’ families are feeling.

Mahdi is the fifth inmate executed by South Carolina in less than eight months as the state makes its way through prisoners who ran out of appeals during an unintended 13-year pause on executions ...

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 ...