COLUMBIA — Mikal Mahdi took about three minutes to die April 11 after three bullets from rifles of state's executioners tore through his chest. The Virginia man convicted of murdering a police ...

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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 was executed on Friday night by firing squad in Columbia, South Carolina, for a pair of murders nearly 21 years ago. Mahdi was convicted of the 2004 grisly killing of Captain James ...

Mikal Mahdi cried out as the shots hit him, and his arms flexed. He groaned two more times about 45 seconds after that. His breaths continued for about 80 seconds before he appear led to take one ...

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 ...

Utah is the only other state in the country where the firing squad is used. Mikal Mahdi is the fifth person to be executed in South Carolina in less than eight months and the second to choose to ...

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 he was pronounced dead at 6:05 p.m. ET. His attorney, who witnessed ...

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 ...

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 will sit restrained in a metal chair and a hood will ...