This week, two executions are scheduled: Michael Tanzi in Florida for kidnapping and murder, and Mikal Mahdi in South Carolina, who has requested to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state ...

Mikal Mahdi was executed on April 11, becoming the second man in South Carolina to be executed by a three-person firing squad this year after admitting to killing an off-duty police officer in 2004.

RICHLAND COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - After South Carolina executed its first inmate in more than a decade, many are wondering what is next for the other men on death row. Freddie Owens died by ...

A South Carolina man — who was convicted of two 2004 murders, including the death of an off-duty cop — opted for a lavish final meal before his execution. Mikal Mahdi, 42, chose to be killed by a ...