Al-Amini’s arguments are very common arguments made by Shias today. All Muslims agree with the basic statement that occurred ...

Mahdi, who was convicted of murdering a police officer and a convenience store worker, died on April 11 at age 42 in South Carolina’s second firing squad execution in the state’s history, both ...

Mahdi died on April 11 after choosing a firing squad as his method of execution. Bamberg, D-Bamberg, and Rep. Neal Collins, R-Pickens, are concerned he died a cruel and unusual death.

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed in South Carolina on April 11, 2025, for the murder of off-duty Orangeburg Public Safety Officer James Myers in 2004. Mahdi also killed a store clerk in North Carolina.

Mahdi was pronounced dead at 6:05 p.m. after he was struck in the heart by three bullets. AP. Mahdi continued to groan and take deep breaths for about two minutes before taking one final gasp ...

Mikal Mahdi was executed on Friday night by firing squad in Columbia, South Carolina, for a pair of murders nearly 21 years ago. Mahdi was convicted of the 2004 grisly killing of Captain James ...

Mahdi is the fifth inmate executed by South Carolina in less than eight months as the state makes its way through prisoners who ran out of appeals during an unintended 13-year pause on executions ...

Mahdi chose to die by firing squad, making him just the second person in South Carolina to select that method of execution.He was just the fifth person in the United States executed by firing ...

Mikal Mahdi is scheduled for execution Friday, April 11, by a South Carolina Department of Corrections firing squad. Mahdi is set to be executed at 6 p.m. at the Broad River Road Correctional ...

Mahdi's execution was the 12th inmate in the U.S. this year and the third in South Carolina. Another inmate was executed in the U.S. this week: Michael Tanzi by lethal injection in Florida on Tuesday.

Mikal Deen Mahdi, 23, of Virginia looks across at his lawyers during his sentencing hearing on Dec. 4, 2006, in St. Matthews. Mahdi will be executed on April 11, 2025, in Columbia by firing squad.

Mahdi was convicted of the 2004 killing of 56-year-old Capt. James Myers, an off-duty Orangeburg Public Safety officer who was killed at the same spot on his farm property where he and his wife ...