42 -year -old Barpinite Mikal Mahi, 42, was killed with a rifle by prison officials in the chamber executionwhere authorities have made a rapid wave of executions, as the Southern Carolina aggressively revives the death penalty.
Mahdi had been sentenced to death for murder by James Miers, a 56 -year -old out -of -service public security official in 2004. His lawyers fought in recent days to prevent his execution, claiming that he had suffered abuse and torture in his childhood and that he was denied a fair trial, but the state courts of South Carolina and the US Supreme Court, rejected the final applications.
South Carolina Republican Governor Henry McMaster announced a few minutes before Mahi’s execution that he would not turn Mahi’s sentence. The state reinstated executions last year After 13 years of pause caused by its inability to get injections euthanasia.
Mahdi, whose last meal It was ribeye steak – a medium -sized – mushroom risotto, broccoli, vegetables, cheesecake and sweet tea. His execution was the 12th in the US for this year.
Officials are now directing the deaths to choose the method of killing – either electric chaireither lethal injection either executive quote.
Mahi’s lawyers said he chose “Less laborious method of running“Which was to shoot him 3 times, instead of” burning and amputated in the electric chair or suffer a prolonged death through injection. “
The Protocols of the State Executive Execution predicted to tie Mahdi to a chair and shoot him three prisoners aimed at the breasts of the barbarin, who did not give a final deposit And he did not look towards the witnesses in the room, including his lawyer.
Mahdi exclaimed when he was shot, his hands bent and he was groaning. Then there were two more shots, with his breaths continuing for about 80 seconds. His death was confirmed around 6.05 pm., less than four minutes after being shot.