Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for killing an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in Calhoun County, South Carolina.

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death in 2006 for the murder of an off-duty Orangeburg police captain. Mahdi was in the middle of a multi-state crime spree during which he also killed a convenience ...

Mikal Mahdi’s execution will take place April 11 at 6 p.m. at a prison in the capital of Columbia, the state Supreme Court announced Friday. The court postponed a potential sixth execution ...

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

Next to be executed is Mikal Mahdi, who killed an off-duty police officer in 2004. As heinous a crime as that was, Mahdi has rights, rights all Americans have, rights that make the U.S. the ...

South Carolina is scheduled to put to death next month the state's fifth death row inmate since a 13-year pause was lifted on ...

Mikal Mahdi is scheduled to die April 11 for the 2004 killing of an off-duty Orangeburg police officer after ambushing him in the officer's work shed in Calhoun County and setting his body on fire ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Mikal Mahdi has been described as a cold-blooded killer. In 2006, Mahdi was convicted and sentenced to death in South Carolina for the murder of an off-duty police captain.