Mikal Mahdi, who killed a South Carolina police officer during a multi-state crime spree, has chosen to die by firing squad.
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SC death row inmate asks to halt execution, says defense was as ‘superficial’ as Law & OrderMikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for killing an off-duty Orangeburg police officer in Calhoun County, South Carolina.
The now-41-year-old was sentenced to death in 2006 after pleading guilty ... then killing a police officer with his own rifle ...
A second South Carolina death row inmate has chosen execution ... when he was 21, arrest records show. The next day, he shot and killed a North Carolina store clerk as the clerk was checking ...
South Carolina law requires that death row inmates choose their method ... According to court records, he stole a station wagon, a set of license plates and a .380 caliber pistol and began making ...
A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in South Carolina since the state resumed the death penalty in September.
A South Carolina inmate is set to become the fifth person to be put to death since the state resumed executions in September after a 13-year pause.
Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.
A SLED investigation into a Charleston County detention center inmate's July 2024 death found he died of severe dehydration and that a deputy violated policy.
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