The Iranian regime hold the belief that the last Imam, Imam al-Mahdi, will reappear as "the awaited Mahdi". Basically their equivalent to the ‘Messiah’ in Christianity. He supposedly has been ...

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...

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

It was the second time someone was executed by a firing squad in SC in five weeks and only the fifth in the U.S. since 1976.

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

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff shot him in the heart at the same time.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WACH) — South Carolina has executed Mikal Mahdi, the second inmate in the state’s history to die by firing ...

South Carolina is set to execute 42-year-old Mikal Mahdi on Friday for the 2004 killing of 56-year-old Capt. James Myers, an off-duty Orangeburg Public Safety officer and beloved father ...

COLUMBIA, S.C -- Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on Friday, the second time the state will have ...

Mikal Mahdi gorged on ribeye steak, mushroom risotto, broccoli, collard greens, cheesecake and sweet tea as a his last meal ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.