And Another sentenced to death was killed by a platoon of execution in South Carolina. It is the second shot that takes place in just over a month in the American southern state that has put the platoon of execution for the first time after 15 years in the United States. As happened for the condemned person killed on 7 March, Mikik Mahdi He had preferred the lethal injection shooting.
According to a prison declaration, The 42 -year -old was killed by several shots of firearm shot by the three components, who are volunteers, of the execution platoon. The execution protocol provides that the condemned is tied in a chair with a hood on the head, five meters away from the platoon. It comes too place a target on the chest in correspondence of the heart. “This night the state of South Carolina shot him, a horrible act that belongs to the darkest chapters in history and not to a civilized society,” said Mahadi’s defense lawyer, David Weiss.
In addition to South Carolina, who reintroduced the shooting in 2021, alongside the lethal injection and the electric chair, four other states – Utah, Idaho, Mississippi and Oklahoma – provide the platoon of execution as a possible method to send the condemned to death. Mahdi’s was the 12th execution since the beginning of the year in the USA, where 23 of the 50 States enabled the capital penalty and 3 others – California, Oregon and Pennsylvania – adopted moratorium.