Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the 2004 murder of Orangeburg police captain James Myers during a multi-state crime ...

South Carolina executed a man by firing squad on Friday after appeals were denied by the state and U.S. Supreme Courts earlier this week. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was convicted in the 2004 killings of an ...

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 ...

Mahdi was convicted of the 2004 killing of 56-year-old Capt. James Myers, an off-duty Orangeburg Public Safety officer and beloved father Mahdi was to sit restrained in a metal chair with a hood ...

Retired educator turned pastor Myra Harris writes that sparing Mikal Mahdi would send “a powerful message to all of the other wounded children like him: We will never stop caring for you.” ...

Mikal Mahdi is scheduled to be executed by firing squad in South Carolina for the 2004 murder of a police officer. Mahdi's attorneys are seeking a reprieve, citing his troubled childhood ...

Mikal Mahdi gave no final statement and did not look to his right toward the nine witnesses in the room behind bulletproof glass and bars once the curtain opened. He took a few deep breaths during ...

South Carolina executed another convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday night, the second such execution in the state. The inmate, Mikal Mahdi, 41, was declared dead shortly after 6 p.m ...

Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded guilty to murder for killing a police officer in 2004, is scheduled to be executed April 11. Mahdi, 41, had the choice of dying by firing squad, lethal injection or the ...

Mikal Mahdi will face execution by firing squad on Friday. 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 ...

Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded guilty to murder for killing a police officer in 2004, is scheduled to be executed April 11. Mahdi, 41, had the choice of dying by firing squad, lethal injection or the ...