Firing squad execution South Carolina's 2nd in 36 days

Firing Squad Executes South Carolina Prisoner Mikal Mahdi

In South Carolina, a firing squad shot and killed a death row prisoner on Friday. Witnesses report Mikal Mahdi cried out when multiple bullets struck him; he groaned twice and continued breathing for 80 seconds before taking a final, gasping breath. It’s the second time South Carolina has used the execution method in the past five weeks.

Cop killer executed by firing squad in S.C.

Mikal Mahdi admitted to shooting Orangeburg Officer James Myers eight times before burning his body in a shed in 2004

Firing squad execution South Carolina's 2nd in 36 days

(The Center Square) – For the second time in 36 days, a firing squad execution has been carried out in South Carolina.

Cop-killer called ‘evil’ is second to die by firing squad in South Carolina

At 6:01 p.m. Friday, in a crack of rifle shots, Mikal Mahdi was executed inside of the Broad River Road Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. The convicted double murder let out a groaning yell as the bullets struck his chest, followed 80 seconds later by a deep guttural moan as the life seemed to leave him. He was pronounced dead around 6:05 p.m. “There was some agony in the cries,” said Jeffrey Collins with the Associated Press…

A man from South Carolina (southeast) was executed on Friday by a firing squad, in the second such death in the United States since 2010. Mikal Mahdi, 42 years old, was executed for the murder in 2004 of James Myers, a 56-year-old police officer who found him hiding in a shed in the garden of his home. He also pleaded guilty to having murdered the shopkeeper three days earlier. “The execution was carried out by a three-person firing squad at 18H…

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