It was the second time someone was executed by firing squad in S.C. in five weeks and only the fifth time in the U.S. since ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set ...

FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair ...

This photo shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left. Mahdi admitted he killed Orangeburg Public Safety officer James ...

During the execution, the inmate is strapped to the chair in the facility's death chamber, housing the electric chair, which cannot be removed, according to prison officials. A target is then ...

There won't be any kind of countdown heard or seen by witnesses before three volunteers all with live ammunition fire on Mikal Mahdi on Friday in the death chamber at a Columbia prison.

Mahdi will sit restrained in a metal chair, a hood over his head, in the corner of a room shared by the state's electric chair ... installed between the death chamber and the witness room.

Mahdi had the choice of dying by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair ... Mahdi's death is the end of a busy time in South Carolina's death chamber. He is the fifth inmate ...