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Key reason 'inhuman' death penalty 'must be abolished', according to experts
The leading human rights organization, founded more than 60 years ago, has shared six reasons why capital punishment should ...
I was 3rd grade teacher for the man South Carolina plans to execute. Don’t do it | Opinion
Sparing Mikal Mahdi would send “a powerful message to all of the other wounded children like him: We will never stop caring ...
This is why I sought the death penalty in South Carolina murder and burglary case | Opinion
Your Honor, the defendant’s character, his lack of adaptability, his future dangerousness cry out for the death penalty. The ...
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Death row killer 'too obese' for execution as lawyers argue it would cause 'needless suffering'
Michael Tanzi, 48, who was found guilty of murdering Janet Acosta, 49, in 2003, is set to face the ultimate punishment on ...
I prosecuted Mikal Mahdi in South Carolina. This is why I sought the death penalty | Opinion
South Carolina plans to execute death row inmate Mikal Mahdi April 11. Here’s how Solicitor David Pascoe argued for the death ...
Condemned SC inmate's defense rested on a sheriff's affidavit. Then the sheriff reversed course.
Brunswick County Sheriff James Woodley now denies ever advocating for Mikal Mahdi's life in an interview with a reporter ...
I was Mikal Mahdi’s third-grade teacher. South Carolina should spare him from the death penalty | Opinion
Retired educator turned pastor Myra Harris writes that sparing Mikal Mahdi would send “a powerful message to all of the other ...
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A second South Carolina death row inmate chooses execution by firing squad
Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded guilty to murder for killing a police officer in 2004, is scheduled to be executed April 11.
Minute-by-minute account of last firing squad death as death row inmate chooses execution method
Shortly after Brad Sigmon was executed by firing squad, fellow death row inmate Mikal Mahdi has also chosen it.
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Man on death row chooses gruelling execution method which has only been used on four inmates in the past 50 years
Mikal Mahdi murdered an off-duty police officer by shooting him eight times and dousing him in diesel before setting him ...
The condemned man made the decision just weeks after the execution of Brad Sigmon
South Carolina death row inmate Mikal Mahdi has chosen to be executed via firing squad just weeks after Brad Sigmon was ...
Second South Carolina Man Chooses Firing Squad for Execution
The option of a firing squad was relatively new in South Carolina, where lethal injection and the electric chair also remain available choices for death row inmates. Mahdi’s decision is particularly ...