Roy Lee Ward, 52, was sentenced to death in 2007 for the July 11, 2001, rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl in the southern ...

SC officials describe firing squad execution. Officials in South Carolina gave remarks to the media on the firing squad execution of Mikal Mahdi, who was convicted of killing three people and ...

SC officials describe firing squad execution. Officials in South Carolina gave remarks to the media on the firing squad execution of Mikal Mahdi, who was convicted of killing three people and numerous ...

Inmate Stephen Stanko was leaning toward a death by firing squad but changed his mind when he couldn't get more details about SC's newest execution method.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — When the three executioners fired their high-powered rifles at him, Mikal Mahdi, who was sentenced to death for the execution-style murder of an Orangeburg police officer, yelled.

The South Carolina Supreme Court rejected Stanko’s request for more details on the firing squad, saying that Stanko’s lawyers failed to prove that the previous execution was botched.

Mahdi was the second person to be executed by firing squad in South Carolina and the fifth to be executed since the state resumed executions in September 2024 following a 13 year pause.