South Carolina executes Mikal Mahdi, convicted cop killer, by firing squad

[ad_1] South Carolina executed a person by firing squad on Friday after appeals have been denied by the state and U.S. Supreme Courts earlier this week.

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was convicted within the 2004 killings of an off-duty police officer in Calhoun County, South Carolina, and a comfort retailer clerk in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was sentenced to loss of life for the homicide of the officer and life in jail for the clerk's homicide.

Mahdi had the selection of dying by deadly injection, the electrical chair or firing squad – and he selected the latter. The Related Press reported that he didn't give a remaining assertion nor have a look at the 9 folks witnessing his execution earlier than a hood was put over his head and pictures have been fired by three jail staff who volunteered for the act. He was declared useless lower than 4 minutes later.

Jail officers introduced that he requested ribeye steak cooked medium, mushroom risotto, broccoli, collard greens, cheesecake and candy tea for his final meal.

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Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed on April 11, 2025, for the violent killing of off-duty Orangeburg Public Security Officer James Myers in 2004. (South Carolina Division of Corrections by way of AP)

Mahdi was sentenced to loss of life in 2006 after he admitted to killing off-duty Orangeburg Department of Public Safety Capt. James Myers, 56, on his property on July 18, 2004.

Myers had been shot at the very least eight occasions and his physique was burned when his spouse discovered him of their shed, which was close to a gasoline station the place Mahdi tried to buy gasoline with a stolen bank card. He left a car he had carjacked in Columbia on the gasoline station and was later arrested in Florida whereas driving Myers' unmarked police truck.

Mahdi additionally admitted to murdering comfort clerk Christopher Boggs three days earlier than he killed Myers. Boggs was shot within the head twice whereas checking Mahdi's ID, in line with The AP.

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Orangeburg Division of Public Security Capt. James Myers, 56, was violently murdered by Mikal Mahdi on July 18, 2004, at a shed on his property. (SC Legislation Enforcement Officers Corridor of Fame)

Mahdi's legal professionals entered a remaining attraction to the South Carolina and the U.S. Supreme Courts, however it was rejected earlier this week.

They argued that Mahdi was not pretty represented by his authentic legal professionals as they didn't name on relations, lecturers or different individuals who knew him in the course of the case, including that additionally they ignored how the a number of months Mahdi spent in solitary confinement as a teen impacted him.

Prosecutors, however, mentioned Mahdi's nature was "violence" and mentioned he solved issues with brutality, mentioning how he stabbed a prison guard and hit one other employee with a concrete block throughout his years on loss of life row.

He was additionally caught with instruments that might have been used to flee, together with sharpened steel that might have acted as a knife, jail information said.

Mikal Mahdi was the second loss of life row inmate in South Carolina to be executed by firing squad previously 5 weeks. (South Carolina Division of Corrections by way of AP)

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The execution on Friday marked the second time a South Carolina inmate has been put to loss of life by firing squad previously 5 weeks and the fifth execution total within the state over the previous eight months.

Following Mahdi's loss of life, the Palmetto State now has 26 inmates on loss of life row – solely a kind of folks has been sentenced to loss of life previously decade.