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 ...

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 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 murder for ...

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 weeks. Mikal Mahdi ...

A convicted cop killer who became the second death row inmate in South Carolina to die by firing squad chomped on a ribeye steak, mushroom risotto, broccoli, collard greens and cheesecake before he ...

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. His attorney confirmed to CBS News that Mikal Mahdi ...

COLUMBIA — State marksmen "largely missed" the heart of a man who chose to die by firing squad last month for killing an Orangeburg police captain, the inmate's attorneys said in a new court filing.

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (WCIV) — Two South Carolina legislators have requested an investigation into the state's firing squad execution last month after lawyers for the inmate said his autopsy showed the ...