It was the second time someone was executed by a firing squad in SC in five weeks and only the fifth in the U.S. since 1976.

Mikal Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.

A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on Friday, the second time the state will have carried out that method ...

Mikal Mahdi’s execution came about a month after the first person in state history was killed in such a manner. Before that, no person had been killed by a firing squad in the United States in 15 ...