Mikal Mahdi, South Carolina inmate convicted in two separate 2004 murders, executed by firing squad

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South Carolina executed a antheral by firing squad connected Friday aft appeals were denied by the authorities and U.S. Supreme Courts earlier this week.

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was convicted successful the 2004 killings of an off-duty constabulary serviceman successful Calhoun County, South Carolina, and a convenience store clerk successful Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was sentenced to decease for the execution of the serviceman and beingness successful situation for the clerk's murder. 

Mahdi had the prime of dying by lethal injection, the electrical seat oregon firing squad – and helium chose the latter. The Associated Press reported that helium did not springiness a last connection nor look astatine the 9 radical witnessing his execution earlier a hood was enactment implicit his caput and shots were fired by 3 situation employees who volunteered for the act. He was declared dormant little than 4 minutes later.

Prison officials announced that helium requested ribeye steak cooked medium, mushroom risotto, broccoli, collard greens, cheesecake and saccharine beverage for his past meal.

CONDEMNED SC MAN'S CASE ABOUT 'APPROPRIATE PUNISHMENT' AS HE AWAITS 'INHUMANE' FIRING SQUAD EXECUTION: LAWYER 

Mikal Mahdi

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed connected April 11, 2025, for the convulsive sidesplitting of off-duty Orangeburg Public Safety Officer James Myers successful 2004. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP)

Mahdi was sentenced to decease successful 2006 aft helium admitted to sidesplitting off-duty Orangeburg Department of Public Safety Capt. James Myers, 56, connected his spot connected July 18, 2004. 

Myers had been changeable astatine slightest 8 times and his assemblage was burned erstwhile his woman recovered him successful their shed, which was adjacent a state presumption wherever Mahdi attempted to acquisition state with a stolen recognition card. He near a conveyance helium had carjacked successful Columbia astatine the state presumption and was aboriginal arrested successful Florida portion driving Myers' unmarked constabulary truck.

Mahdi besides admitted to murdering convenience clerk Christopher Boggs 3 days earlier helium killed Myers. Boggs was changeable successful the caput doubly portion checking Mahdi's ID, according to The AP.

SECOND SOUTH CAROLINA INMATE CHOOSES EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD 

Slain Orangeburg, S.C. Capt. James Myers

Orangeburg Department of Public Safety Capt. James Myers, 56, was violently murdered by Mikal Mahdi connected July 18, 2004, astatine a shed connected his property. (SC Law Enforcement Officers Hall of Fame)

Mahdi's lawyers entered a last entreaty to the South Carolina and the U.S. Supreme Courts, but it was rejected earlier this week. 

They argued that Mahdi was not reasonably represented by his archetypal lawyers arsenic they did not telephone connected relatives, teachers oregon different radical who knew him during the case, adding that they besides ignored however the respective months Mahdi spent successful solitary confinement arsenic a teen impacted him.

Prosecutors, connected the different hand, said Mahdi's quality was "violence" and said helium solved problems with brutality, mentioning however helium stabbed a situation defender and deed different idiosyncratic with a factual artifact during his years connected decease row. 

He was besides caught with tools that could person been utilized to escape, including sharpened metallic that could person acted arsenic a knife, situation records stated.

South Carolina firing squad execution chair

Mikal Mahdi was the 2nd decease enactment inmate successful South Carolina to beryllium executed by firing squad successful the past 5 weeks. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP)

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The execution connected Friday marked the 2nd clip a South Carolina inmate has been enactment to decease by firing squad successful the past 5 weeks and the 5th execution wide successful the authorities implicit the past 8 months.

Following Mahdi's death, the Palmetto State present has 26 inmates connected decease enactment – lone 1 of those radical has been sentenced to decease successful the past decade.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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