Mikal Mahdi is scheduled to be executed by firing squad in South Carolina for the 2004 murder of a police officer. Mahdi's attorneys are seeking a reprieve, citing his troubled childhood ...

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. His attorney confirmed to CBS News that Mikal ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court refused an appeal made in an attempt to block the firing squad execution later this week for a man who ambushed and killed an off-duty police officer. Mikal Mahdi ...

FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair ...

By Eduardo Medina South Carolina executed another convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday night, the second such execution in the state. The inmate, Mikal Mahdi, 41, was declared dead shortly ...