A bill advancing in the state legislature Tuesday would allow people sentenced to death in North Carolina to choose between three options for their execution: lethal injection, electrocution, or ...

The state also allows execution by electrocution. South Carolina has executed three people in 2025. Pascoe prosecuted the ...

the second such execution in the US state of South Carolina this year. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed for the 2004 murder of 56-year-old James Myers, an off-duty police officer, and the murder of a ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, had three slugs fired into his ... did not make a final statement before his execution, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. Mahdi was then hooded and ...

South Carolina executed a man by firing squad on Friday after appeals were denied by the state and U.S. Supreme Courts earlier this week. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was convicted in the 2004 killings of an ...

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago. It is the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks.

Mikal Mahdi cried out as the shots hit him ... at 6:01 p.m. He was pronounced dead by a physician at 6:05 p.m., the South Carolina Department of Corrections confirmed to CBS News.

The others all occurred in Utah. This photo provided by South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Mikal Mahdi. South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP The firing squad is an execution ...