South Carolina resumed executions with the firing squad killing of Brad Sigmon last month. Mikal Madhi’s execution date is days away.

Arizona Democrats are rushing to contain the political damage from internal feuding that has consumed the state party and its ...

South Carolina is set to execute 42-year-old Mikal Mahdi by firing squad for killing an off-duty police officer who was ...

A South Carolina man on death row prepares to be put to death by firing squad, as his lawyer says the case is a matter of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past ...

The choice to die by firing squad – rather than lethal injection or the electric chair – was Mahdi’s own, his attorney said last month: “Faced with barbaric and inhumane choices ...

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff ...

The execution of Mikal Mahdi, 42, will mark the second time in five weeks that the state has used a firing squad.

A murderer who shot a police officer dead before burning his corpse has been executed by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi chose to ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed for the 2004 murder of 56-year-old James Myers A man facing the death penalty for committing two murders was executed by firing squad on Friday, the second such execution ...

Five states − South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and Idaho − have legalized firing squads as an execution method but Mahdi's is only the fifth such execution since 1977. A firing ...