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A second South Carolina The inmate of the death corridor has chosen the execution when shooting a squad.
Mikal Mahdi, 41, will be executed on April 11 after being guilty of killing for killing a police officer in 2004.
“In front of Bárbara and Inhuman elections, Mikal Mahdi has chosen the minor of three ills,” said one of his lawyers, David Weiss, in a statement. “Mikal chose the shooting squad instead of being burned and mutilated in the electric chair, or suffering a persistent death on the lethal injection stretcher.”
Brad Sigmon He chose to be shot dead in South Carolina on March 7, becoming the first prisoner executed by a shooting team in the United States in 15 years. A doctor spoke dead less than three minutes after three bullets hit him.
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Mikal Mahdi, 41, will run on April 11 at 6 pm in a prison in Columbia. (South Carolina Corrections Department through AP)
Only three other inmates in the United States have been executed by this method since 1976, and they were all in Utah.
Mahdi stole a weapon and a car in Virginia on July 14, 2004, when he was 21, as shown by the arrest records. The next day, the shot and killed An employee of the North Carolina store when the employee was reviewing his identification. A couple of days later, the cars put someone at an intersection in Columbia, South Carolina.
On July 18, 2004, while running after those crimes, Mahdi hid in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Public Security officer James Myers’ Shed. Mahdi ambushed Meyers when the officer returned from a birthday celebration for his wife, sister and daughter, prosecutors said.
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This photo provided by the South Carolina Corrections Department shows the State Death Chamber in Columbia, SC, including the electric chair, the right and a shots squad chair, to the left. (South Carolina Corrections Department/AP)
Myers, 56, was shot eight or nine times, even twice in the head after falling to the ground. A pathologist declared that at least seven of the shots would have been fatal.
Mahdi then set fire to Myers’ body and escaped. Myers’ wife discovered her husband’s body in the shed, who had used for the backdrop of her wedding.
Brad Sigmon was convicted of killing death to the parents of his separate girlfriend in Greenville County in 2001. (South Carolina Corrections Department through AP)
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On July 21, 2004, Mahdi was arrested in Florida.
Landon Mion of Fox News and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
