The Supreme Court of South Carolina rejected an appeal made in an attempt to block the execution of the execution squad at the end of this week for a man who ambushed and killed a police officer out of service.
Mikal Mahdi’s lawyers sought to maintain their execution and reasoned that their original defense team presented a poor quality in their name when he was in trial. His original lawyers did not bring any relatives, teachers or any other relevant person for him and did not consider the impact that extended solitary confinement had when he was a teenager, he argued his new team.
But the Supreme Court of the State decided in a unanimous decision to allow Friday’s execution.
Until now, four people have executed their legs in South Carolina in the last eight months. All the appeals of the inmates presented to the Supreme Court of the State were rejected, and no governor of South Carolina has offered clemency in the 47 executions made in the state capital punishment was restored in 1976.
Even so, Republican governor Henry McMaster is Mahdi’s last hope.
Mahdi was convicted of killing the Public Security officer of Orangeburg James Myers in 2004. Hi, ambushed to the police out of service, he shot at least eight times and burned his body in a shed that had had the backdrop of the officer of the officer only 15 months before.
He was later arrested in Florida while driving the police truck without marking from the police.
Mahdi also admitted to having killed Christopher Biggs, an employee of convenience stores in North Carolina, only three days before. Biggs was shot twice on the head while checking Mahdi’s identification. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for that murder.
For the murder of Myers, Mahdi declared himself guilty and was sentenced to death. The argument of all the defense that struggles for Mahdi’s life only lasted 30 minutes and included only two witnesses, a chordination to his new lawyers, who wrote it “was as superficial” as “an episode of law and order.”
At the opposite end, the Prosecutor’s Office called for an internship 28 witnesses.
The execution of Musti advances, will be the second in a partner executed by the new South Carolina shooting team after Brad Sigmon decided to be shot dead last month. Sigmon was also the first death corridor in 15 years to choose the death by fuse squad.
Mahdi will be executed with three bullets to the heart at 6 pm on April 11 at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia.
With publication cables
