The second man in South Carolina decides to die by giving up squad | South Carolina

A second prisoner in South Carolina asked to die the first death just five weeks after the first death.

Mikal Mahdi opted for the firing group on Friday. His execution is planned for April 11th.

Mahdi was convicted because he had killed a policeman with a weapon he had stolen from the officer’s shed in 2004.

Mahdi had the choice of dying through shooting, fatal injection or electric chair. Mahdi is the first prisoner to be executed in the state since Brad Sigmon died by bullets on March 7. A doctor declared Sigmon less than three minutes after the shots were made.

The 41-year-old Mahdi, James Myers, in July 2004 in his County Shed in Calhoun County, who overtook an Orangeburger officer of public security in July 2004 when he returned from a birthday party outside the city for his wife, sister and daughter, said the prosecutors.

Myers’ wife found his burned body, which was shot at least eight times, in the shed, which had been the backdrop for her wedding less than 15 months earlier, the authorities said.

Mahdi is strapped in a chair with 4.6 meters of three prison employees who voluntarily registered in the firing squad. One goal is placed on his chest. Your rifles are all loaded with a living round that disintegrates when it hits his chest.

Together with Sigmon, only three other prisoners – all in Utah – were killed by a firing squad in the past 50 years. Sigmon was the first prisoner to have been killed by bullets in the USA since 2010.