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

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

It was the second time someone was executed by firing squad in S.C. in five weeks and only the fifth time in the U.S. since ...

The Virginia man convicted in 2004 of murdering an off-duty Orangeburg Police captain is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. unless a ...

A convicted cop killer who became the second death row inmate in South Carolina to die by firing squad chomped on a ribeye ...

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

South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they ...

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

Mahdi is to be put to death with three bullets to the heart at 6 p.m. on April 11 at the Broad River Correctional Institution ...

Mikal Mahdi, who was convicted of the 2004 murder of an off-duty police officer, is to be put to death by firing squad Friday ...

A firing squad in South Carolina on Friday executed a death ... The firing squad put a hood over 42-year-old Mikal Mahdi's head and shot him in the heart simultaneously with three bullets, and ...

Mahdi received the death penalty for killing a police officer in 2004. He is the second death row inmate to die by firing squad in South Carolina. The first was Brad Sigmon in March 2025.