A South Carolina man will be put to death next month after spending nearly 20 years on death row. 41-year-old Mikal D. Mahdi ...

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in South Carolina since ...

The man sentenced to death for the killing of an off-duty Orangeburg law enforcement officer in 2004 has learned the date of ...

Mikal Mahdi burned the body of Orangeburg County Deputy James Edward Myers after shooting him 9 times. The death row inmate ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice ...

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...

Imagine being given a choice on how you die, but the options are limited to electrocution, lethal injection or a firing squad ...

One of the three media witnesses to the execution of Brad Sigmon in South Carolina on Friday describes what he saw.

Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in ...

South Carolina has executed Brad Sigmon, the fourth inmate to be put to death by the state since executions resumed in ...