South Carolina prison officials will put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they ...

The death row inmate is being held at a prison in Columbia, South Carolina, for the murder of a police captain ...

A prison employee will then place a hood over ... This photo shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina's prisons director said Wednesday that state's supply of a lethal injection drug is pure, its electric chair was tested two months ago and its firing squad has ...

Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded guilty to murder for killing a police officer in 2004, is scheduled to be executed April 11.

South Carolina's highest court on Monday rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing ...

The Florida Legislature passed a law replacing that method with an electric chair, which was built by prison inmates. The first person electrocuted by the state was Frank Johnson in 1924 ...

Prison officials have told a death row inmate he can choose how he dies. Richard Moore was told on Tuesday that he can choose 3 a firing squad, the electric chair and lethal injection for his ...

Mikal Mahdi, who killed a South Carolina police officer during a multi-state crime spree, has chosen to die by firing squad. He is only the second person in the state to choose to die this way since ...

He was eventually sentenced to death and executed by electric chair in 1989. Assata Shakur's story is unique in that she has been a fugitive from the law since her escape from prison — even ...