The first firing squad execution in over 15 years was carried out last month. It provides a glimpse into how such executions ...

The others all occurred in Utah. This photo provided by South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Mikal Mahdi. South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP The firing squad is an execution ...

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

A few more details are known about South Carolina's firing squad as the state prepares to carry out its second execution by ...

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 die 20 years ago for the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer. He will be the fifth inmate executed by South Carolina in less than eight months as the state makes ...

April 11 (UPI) --South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they executed Mikal Mahdi on Friday in Columbia. Mahdi was ...

CHESTER, S.C. (WBTV) - A Chester, South Carolina man will spend the next eight years in prison after being found guilty of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina's prisons director said Wednesday that state's supply of a lethal injection drug is pure, its electric chair was tested two months ago and its firing squad has ...

Photos released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections show that the state intends to strap the prisoner, Brad Sigmon, to a metal seat in the same small, indoor brick death chamber where ...

McLeod sentenced Yeldell to one year in prison with the balance suspended ... the records add. South Carolina Law Enforcement Division agents arrested Yeldell May 5, 2020, and charged him ...