COLUMBIA, S.C. — A 2nd South Carolina demise row inmate has requested to die via firing squad simply 5 weeks after the state performed its first demise via bullets.
Mikal Mahdi selected the firing squad Friday. His execution is scheduled for April 11.
Mahdi used to be convicted for killing a police officer with a gun he stole from the officer’s shed in 2004.
Mahdi had the number of death via firing squad, deadly injection or the electrical chair. Mahdi is the primary inmate to be accomplished within the state since Brad Sigmon selected to die via bullets on March 7. A physician pronounced Sigmon lifeless not up to 3 mins after the photographs have been fired.
Mahdi, 41, ambushed Orangeburg public protection officer James Myers at his Calhoun County shed in July 2004 as he returned from an out-of-town celebration for his spouse, sister and daughter, prosecutors mentioned.
Myers’ spouse discovered his burned frame, shot no less than 8 instances together with two times within the head, within the shed that have been the backdrop for his or her marriage ceremony not up to 15 months previous, government mentioned.
Mahdi will probably be strapped in a chair 15 toes (4.6 meters) from 3 jail workers who volunteered to be at the firing squad. A goal will probably be put on his chest. Their rifles will all be loaded with a reside spherical that shatters when it hits his rib cage.
Along side Sigmon, handiest 3 different inmates — all in Utah — were killed via a firing squad previously 50 years. Sigmon used to be the primary inmate killed via bullets within the U.S. since 2010.
