Powers was one of 46 death row inmates in Tennessee. He was convicted in the death of Shannon Sanderson in 1996.

A man convicted of murdering a South Carolina police officer was executed by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi, 42, was shot in the ...

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago. It is the second time the ...

Mahdi was convicted of the 2004 death of Orangeburg Public Safety officer James Myers. The Associated Press reported that police said Mahdi killed a store clerk in North Carolina and stole a car at ...

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff ...

Each death penalty case is autho­rized by the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., in con­sul­ta­tion with local U.S.

Prosecutors' decision to forego seeking the death penalty in the Texas case reportedly had to do with the victims' families' ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to die 20 years ago for the ambush killing of an off-duty police officer. He will be the fifth inmate executed by South Carolina in less than eight months as the state makes ...

A South Carolina man on death row prepares to be put to death by firing squad, as his lawyer says the case is a matter of ...

The Justice Department will seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing a fellow inmate at the federal government ...