Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded guilty to murder for killing a police officer in 2004, is scheduled to be executed April 11.

The firing squad is an execution method with a long ... Gerald “Bo” King, chief of the capital habeas unit in the federal public defender’s office, said Sigmon “used his final statement ...

Police say the teenager fired at least 8 rounds in rapid succession at the officers, who accelerated and drove past the teen.

Last year, a new execution method was used in the U.S. for the first time since 1982. Here’s a look at how people have been ...

If his execution proceeds, Mahdi will be the second South Carolinian to die by firing squad in the last 40 days, following ...

A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method.