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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

South Carolina is set to execute 42-year-old Mikal Mahdi by firing squad for killing an off-duty police officer who was ambushed, shot nine times and set on fire.