The second prisoner of the South Carolina, Mikal Mahdi, chooses the execution to be shot
One second South Carolina Death Row Intermaid chose the execution by shooting Squad.
Mikal Mahdi, 41, will be put to death on April 11 after declaring himself guilty of murder for killing a police officer in 2004.
“In the face of barbarian and inhuman choices, Mikal Mahdi chose the minor of three evils,” said one of his lawyers, David Weiss. “Mikal chose the fire team instead of being burned and mutilated in the electric chair or suffering from a persistent death on the lethal injection of the gurnan.”
Brad Sigmon I chose to be hit to death in the South Carolina on March 7, becoming the first prisoner carried out by the dismissal team in the United States in 15 years. A doctor pronounced Migmon dead less than three minutes after three bullets hit him.
South Carolina establishes the date for the 5th execution in less than 7 months
Mikal Mahdi, 41, will be carried out on 11 April at 18:00 in a prison in Columbia. (Department of Corrections of the Carolina of the South through AP)
Only three other prisoners in the United States have been performed with this method since 1976 and everyone was in Utah.
Mahdi stole a gun and car in Virginia on July 14, 2004, when he was 21, show the arrests. The next day, he shot and killed An employee of the North Carolina shop as an employee was checking his identification. A couple of days later, he loaded someone in an intersection in Columbia, in the South Carolina.
On July 18, 2004, while he was on the run after those crimes, Mahdi hid in Orangeburg, the South Carolina, the public security shed James Myers. Mahdi greeted Meyers when the officer returned from a birthday celebration for his wife, sister and daughter, the ministries said.
This photo provided by the Department of Corrections of the Carolina of the South shows the state chamber of the state in Columbia, SC, including the electric chair, right and a chair of the fire team, on the left. (Department of Corrections of the Carolina of the South/AP)
Myers, 56 years old, was hit eight or nine times, including twice on the head after falling to the ground. A pathologist testified that at least seven of the blows would be fatal.
Mahdi then set fire to Myers’s body and escaped. Myers’s wife discovered her husband’s corpse in the shed, whom they had used for the background of their wedding.
Brad Sigmon was convicted of having beaten his girlfriend’s parents in the County of Greenville in 2001. (Department of Corrections of the Carolina of the South through AP)
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On July 21, 2004, Mahdi was taken in custody in Florida.
Landon Mion of Fox News and The Associated Press have contributed to this relationship.
