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COLUMBIA, SC - Mikal Mahdi, convicted of killing an off-duty police officer in South Carolina, was executed by the firing ...

In South Carolina, a firing squad shot and killed a death row prisoner on Friday. Witnesses report Mikal Mahdi cried out when multiple bullets struck him; he groaned twice and continued breathing for ...

For the second time in 36 days, a firing squad execution has been carried out in South Carolina. Mikal Mahdi, 42, died Friday ...

At 6:01 p.m. Friday, in a crack of rifle shots, Mikal Mahdi was executed inside of the Broad River Road Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. The ...

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, had three slugs fired into his ... did not make a final statement before his execution, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. Mahdi was then hooded and ...

South Carolina executed a man by firing squad on Friday after appeals were denied by the state and U.S. Supreme Courts earlier this week. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was convicted in the 2004 killings of an ...