A South Carolina death row inmate whose attorneys say had a tortured past that included "thousands of hours" of solitary confinement is set to become the second man executed by firing squad in the U.S ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A firing squad in South Carolina is set to execute a death row inmate who ambushed an off-duty police officer, shot him nine times ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina's highest court on Monday rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad later this week for the ambush killing of an off-duty ...

COLUMBIA — For a man facing death by firing squad this week, one of his earliest childhood memories is of his father. Slamming his mother through a glass table. As the boy begged him to stop. Mikal ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - First Circuit Solicitor David Pascoe released a response to calls from state lawmakers urging the state government to investigate the execution of a death row inmate. Reps.

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 be ...