President Trump's push for more federal and state executions marks a new chapter in the shifting politics of the death ...

A firing squad executed a South Carolina man Friday who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past ...

On Friday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections executed its second death row inmate by firing squad since the state ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by the state of South Carolina on April 11 for the violent killing of off-duty Orangeburg ...

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff ...

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

Mikal Mahdi’s execution came about a month after the first person in state history was killed in such a manner. Before that, ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, is to be executed at 6pm (10pm UK time) at a prison in state capital Columbia for the murder of 56-year-old ...

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...

In just days before his scheduled execution, one South Carolina inmate on death row has filed a petition for clemency with ...