South Carolina inmate chooses to die by firing squad like the last condemned inmate before him

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Second South Carolina inmate chooses execution by firing squad

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.  "Faced with barbaric and inhumane choices, Mikal Mahdi has chosen the lesser of three evils," one of his lawyers, David Weiss, said in a statement. "Mikal chose the firing squad instead of being burned and mutilated in the electric chair, or sufferi…

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A second South Carolina death row inmate chooses execution by firing squad

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets.

Second SC death row inmate chooses to die by firing squad • SC Daily Gazette

The above shows the execution chamber in the Department of Corrections' Columbia prisons complex, as seen from the witness room. The firing squad chair (left) was added following a 2021 state law that made death by firing squad an option. The electric chair is under the cover. (Provided by the S.C. Department of Corrections)COLUMBIA — Death row inmate Mikal Mahdi chose to die by firing squad, making him the second person in the state to do so si…

Another SC inmate chooses firing squad execution, 3 weeks after state's first use of the method

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the killing of James Myers, a South Carolina police officer, and burning his body. Brad Sigmon also chose this method.