This is why I sought the death penalty in South Carolina murder and burglary case | Opinion
Your Honor, the defendant’s character, his lack of adaptability, his future dangerousness cry out for the death penalty. The ...
I prosecuted Mikal Mahdi in South Carolina. This is why I sought the death penalty | Opinion
South Carolina plans to execute death row inmate Mikal Mahdi April 11. Here’s how Solicitor David Pascoe argued for the death ...
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I was Mikal Mahdi’s third-grade teacher. South Carolina should spare him from the death penalty | Opinion
Retired educator turned pastor Myra Harris writes that sparing Mikal Mahdi would send “a powerful message to all of the other ...
Firing squads in Florida? Corrections bill opens door to execution alternatives
If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...
Condemned SC inmate's defense rested on a sheriff's affidavit. Then the sheriff reversed course.
Brunswick County Sheriff James Woodley now denies ever advocating for Mikal Mahdi's life in an interview with a reporter ...
End the death penalty. We need moral leadership and these public safety policies instead | Opinion
As South Carolina prepares for its fifth execution in seven months, Rev. Hillary Taylor, executive director of South ...
South Carolina death row inmate invokes 'sovereign citizen' defense in bid to avoid execution
A last-ditch effort from attorneys of a death row inmate argue that his beliefs about being a "sovereign citizen" could be considered insanity and should spare him from execution.
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Man on death row chooses gruelling execution method which has only been used on four inmates in the past 50 years
Mikal Mahdi murdered an off-duty police officer by shooting him eight times and dousing him in diesel before setting him ...
I saw South Carolina use a firing squad to execute a man. I am sick with rage. | Opinion
I watched my client's execution by firing squad. He chose it after three lethal injection executions left men lingering on a ...
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Crews continue battling three wildfires in Polk Co.
Firefighters continue to make progress Friday containing wildfires in Polk County and Henderson County in North Carolina.
Death row inmate with Triad ties chooses firing squad for execution in South Carolina
Mahdi, 41, had the choice of dying by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. He will be the first inmate to be ...
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Another South Carolina death row inmate chooses firing squad
If his execution proceeds, Mahdi will be the second South Carolinian to die by firing squad in the last 40 days, following ...