COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's highest court on Monday ... in earlier unsuccessful appeals and refused to stop Friday's scheduled execution so further hearings could be held.

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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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court on ... in earlier unsuccessful appeals and refused to stop Friday’s scheduled execution so further hearings could be held.

South Carolina’s highest court on Monday rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad later this week for the ambush killing of an off-duty police ...