South Carolina's highest court refuses to stop second firing squad execution
- South Carolina's highest court unanimously ruled against Mikal Mahdi's last major appeal, confirming his upcoming execution by firing squad for murdering an off-duty police officer
- Mikal Mahdi is scheduled to be executed by firing squad at 6 p.m. On April 11 at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia
- Mahdi's execution will follow Brad Sigmon's, who previously chose firing squad as his execution method last month
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S.C. Man, Who Was Convicted of Killing a Cop, Chose This Upscale Final Meal Before His Firing Squad Execution
Mikal Mahdi, who was convicted of two 2004 murders, including the death of an off-duty cop, chose an upscale final meal ahead of his execution by firing squad on Friday, April 11.
"The tragic story of an abandoned child": the murderer Mikal Mahdi will be killed by firing squad this Friday
Mikal Mahdi, 42 years old, is to be executed in the evening for the 2004 murder of James Myers, a 56-year-old police officer who had found him hiding in a garden hut at his home. He had also pleaded guilty to the murder of a supermarket employee three days earlier.
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