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

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

AND ANOTHER SOUTH CAROLINA INMATE WAS EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD YESTERDAY. MICHAEL MARTY WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING AN ...

The others all occurred in Utah. The firing squad is an execution ... in the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. But South Carolina lawmakers saw it as the quickest and most humane way to ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina is legally required to keep ... the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 — all of them in Utah, in 1977, 1996 and 2010. Mahdi, 41, was convicted of the ...

Despite Southern Utah's snowpack remaining below 50% of average and the wildfire risk rising, local fire departments continue ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to die 20 years ago for the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer. He will be the fifth inmate executed by South Carolina in less than eight months as the state makes ...