ST. MATTHEWS — The man who pleaded guilty to the 2004 murder of an Orangeburg Department of Public Safety officer was sentenced to death Friday. The atmosphere in the courtroom of the Calhoun ...

The firm achieved this by leaving over 70 per cent of the plot unbuilt, ensuring the project embraces the landscape, silence, ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was shot dead inside Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia at 6.05pm on Friday - marking the state's second rare execution in just over a month. Captain James Edward ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was convicted in the 2004 killings of an off-duty police officer in Calhoun County, South Carolina, and a convenience store clerk in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was ...

COLUMBIA — Mikal Mahdi took about three minutes to die April 11 after three bullets from rifles of state's executioners tore through his chest. The Virginia man convicted of murdering a police ...

Mikal Mahdi gave no final statement and did not look to his right toward the nine witnesses in the room behind bulletproof glass and bars once the curtain opened. He took a few deep breaths during ...

Mikal Mahdi will face execution by firing squad on Friday. Mahdi received the death penalty for killing a police officer in 2004. He is the second death row inmate to die by firing squad in South ...

Utah is the only other state in the country where the firing squad is used. Mikal Mahdi is the fifth person to be executed in South Carolina in less than eight months and the second to choose to ...

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 was to sit restrained in a metal chair with a hood ...