South Carolina’s highest court denies appeal to stay upcoming firing squad execution for cop killer
Mahdi is to be put to death with three bullets to the heart at 6 p.m. on April 11 at the Broad River Correctional Institution ...
A second South Carolina death row inmate chooses execution by firing squad
A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its ...
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Lethal Injection, Electric Chair, or Firing Squad? An Inhumane Decision for Death Row Prisoners
South Carolina resumed executions with the firing squad killing of Brad Sigmon last month. Mikal Madhi’s execution date is days away. The curtain shrieked as it was yanked open to reveal a 67 ...
A second person on South Carolina’s death row has chosen to be executed by firing squad
Mikal Mahdi, who killed a South Carolina police officer during a multi-state crime spree, has chosen to die by firing squad.
South Carolina death row inmate invokes 'sovereign citizen' defense in bid to avoid execution
A last-ditch effort from attorneys of a death row inmate argue that his beliefs about being a "sovereign citizen" could be ...
South Carolina’s highest court refuses to stop another firing squad execution
Mahdi confessed to the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer at the officer's Calhoun County shed. He is the fifth ...
I saw South Carolina use a firing squad to execute a man. I am sick with rage. | Opinion
I watched my client's execution by firing squad. He chose it after three lethal injection executions left men lingering on a ...