Mikal Mahdi, convicted of murdering an Orangeburg police officer, is scheduled to die on April 11; he's among 26 people awaiting execution ...

No state has had more executions since September than South Carolina. That’s one reason why opinion editor Matthew T. Hall ...

The state Supreme Court issued a list of six inmates to be executed when executions ... He’s set to be the fifth death row inmate executed in the past seven months in South Carolina.

That takes the death penalty optically to a new level, because capital punishment has always been brutal. But when we resort to visibly brutal methods, that may have a further impact and to accelerate ...

Mikal Mahdi burned the body of Orangeburg County Deputy James Edward Myers after shooting him 9 times. The death row inmate ...

A South Carolina man will be put to death next month after spending nearly 20 years on death row. 41-year-old Mikal D. Mahdi ...

Steven Bixby who subscrubes to views held by the sovereign citizen movement was sentenced to death for the murders of two law ...

who had been on death row. The court set aside their convictions due to insufficient and unreliable evidence. Both men had been accused of kidnapping the boy, Inam, for ransom in 2008 and ...

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in South Carolina since ...

Bixby killed Abbeville County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Danny Wilson and state Constable Donnie Outzs in 2003. He was angry over ...

On Friday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections was greenlit on an execution order for Death Row inmate Mikal D.