Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A firing squad in South Carolina on Friday executed a death row inmate who ambushed an off-duty police officer, shot him nine ...

An Iraqi Army soldier from the 42nd Iraqi Army Brigade, 11th Iraqi Army Division provides security at Combat Patrol Base Comanche in the Sadr City district of Baghdad April 19. (US Air Force ...

April 11 (UPI) --South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they executed Mikal Mahdi on Friday in Columbia. Mahdi was convicted ...

About 200 demonstrators held a rally to support the military operations in Basra and Maliki’s government, in Diwaniya on Saturday. Reuters Photograph. With the fifth day of fighting in Baghdad, Basrah ...

COLUMBIA, S.C.— A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five ...

Lawyers who represent the recently executed Mikal Mahdi are alleging that the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) “botched” their client’s firing squad execution, which caused him to ...

Protesters outside of the Broad River Road Correctional Institution, which holds South Carolina’s death chamber, hold up signs protesting the execution of Mikal Mahdi on Friday. Ted Clifford Ted ...