The execution of Mikal Mahdi, 42, will mark the second time in five weeks that the state has used a firing squad Lesley Cosme Torres is a writer at PEOPLE covering crime. She has been working at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mikal Mahdi is scheduled for execution Friday, April 11, by a South Carolina Department of Corrections firing squad. Mahdi is set ...

A firing squad in South Carolina on Friday executed a death row inmate who ambushed an off-duty police officer, shot him nine times and set him on fire in 2004. The firing squad put a hood over ...

A South Carolina death row inmate whose attorneys say had a tortured past that included "thousands of hours" of solitary confinement is set to become the second man executed by firing squad in the U.S ...

COLUMBIA, S.C -- 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A firing squad in South Carolina on Friday executed a death row inmate who ambushed an off-duty police officer, shot him nine ...