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Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed in South Carolina on April 11, 2025, for the murder of off-duty Orangeburg Public Safety Officer James Myers in 2004. Mahdi also killed a store clerk in North Carolina.

Why states are turning to execution methods like firing squads and nitrogen gas 04:25. A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time ...

SOUTH CAROLINA (WCIV) — Friday night, another South Carolina inmate died by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi was on death row for killing an Orangeburg Department of Public Safety officer in 2004.

On March 7, South Carolina executed Brad Keith Sigmon by firing squad, the first execution in the U.S. using the method since 2010 and only the fourth since 1977. The previous three were all ...

South Carolina executed another convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday night, the second such execution in the state. The inmate, Mikal Mahdi, 41, was declared dead shortly after 6 p.m ...

Why South Carolina man chose death penalty by firing squad 02:33. A medical expert for the state said at the 2022 trial that if the heart is heavily damaged an inmate would lose consciousness ...

COLUMBIA — South Carolina's highest court on Monday rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad later this week for the ambush killing of an off-duty ...

A second South Carolina death row inmate has chosen execution by firing squad. Mikal Mahdi, 41, will be put to death on April 11 after pleading guilty to murder for killing a police officer in 2004.

South Carolina has executed 47 inmates since the death penalty was resumed in the U.S. in 1976. In the early 2000s, the state was carrying out an average of three executions per year. Only nine ...

Mahdi was sentenced to death in 2006 for murder, burglary and grand larceny. In July 17, 2004, he shot James Myers, a police captain from Orangeburg, South Carolina, nine times before covering the ...