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Mikal Mahdi murdered an off-duty police officer by shooting him eight times and dousing him in diesel before setting him ...

Thurman struck out 11 batters in seven innings to help Bunker Hill take down the No. 1 team in the 2A West Region on Friday.

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I watched my client's execution by firing squad. He chose it after three lethal injection executions left men lingering on a ...

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 death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its ...

South Carolina death row inmate has chosen execution by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi, 41, will be put to death on April 11 after ...

No South Carolina governor has offered clemency in the 47 executions in the state since the death penalty resumed in the United States in 1976.