>>South Carolina Schedules Second Firing Squad Execution Of 2025
(Columbia, SC) -- South Carolina has scheduled a second execution, so far this year, by firing squad.
Mikal Mahdi is scheduled to be executed Friday for the murder of an Orangeburg police officer in 2004. The crime spree that culminated in Officer James Myers' death lasted three days and included two other deaths in Virgina and North Carolina. His final appeal was denied in March. Mahdi made the choice himself to die by firing squad.