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Along with Sigmon’s firing squad death last month, three other South Carolina prisoners have been executed via lethal injection since September. South Carolina now has 28 inmates on its death row.

On Friday, April 11, South Carolina is scheduled to execute death row inmate Mikal Mahdi by firing squad. It will be the second time this year one of the state's inmates have been killed in … ...

Mahdi's execution came a little over a month after Brad Sigmon was put to death March 7, in the first U.S. firing squad death in 15 years and the fourth since 1976. The others all occurred in Utah.

There are a couple reasons why some states and death row inmates are turning to a method that might be seen as antiquated. First, the firing squad’s reemergence is an outgrowth of states ...

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Mahdi, 41, had the choice of dying by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. He will be the first inmate to be executed in the state since Brad Sigmon chose to be shot to death on ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — 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. Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded ...

Sigmon's execution marked the first time in South Carolina's history that a death row inmate was killed by firing squad. The last U.S. execution by firing squad occurred in Utah in 2010.

Currently, there are 35 inmates on death row in Mississippi, according to an MDOC spokesperson. The Clarion Ledger attempted to find out MDOC's policy on executions by firing squad, but was told ...