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

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

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

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 ...

Bixby killed Abbeville County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Danny Wilson and state Constable Donnie Outzs in 2003. He was angry over ...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill on Wednesday making death by firing squad the preferred method for executions, and death ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WSPA) — A South Carolina man became the first person in the state ... and by 6:08 p.m., he was pronounced ...

Mahdi was convicted of the murder of off-duty Orangeburg County Public Safety Captain James Myers in 2004. The ...

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

A Texas appeals court has blocked the execution of David Wood just two days before he was set to be put to death by lethal ...

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

The action comes on the heels of the first U.S. execution by firing squad in nearly 15 years last week in South Carolina.