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A man from South Carolina (Southeast) was executed on Friday by a firing squad, in the second death of this type in the United States since 2010.
Mikik Mahdi42, he was executed for the murder in 2004 of James Myers, a 56 -year -old police officer who found him hidden in a shed in the garden of his house.
He also declared guilty of having killed the employee of a store three days before.
“The execution was carried out by a three -people shooting squad at 6:00 p.m. (22H05 GMT), reported the state prison service in a statement.
David Weiss, one of his lawyers, described the execution as a “Atrocious act out of the darkest chapters in history”.
According to her lawyers, when she was four years old, her mother fled her abuser husband and left him in the care of her father, a man with mental problems.
“Between 14 and 21 years, Mikal spent more than 80% of his life in prison and lived 8,000 hours in isolation”they declared.
They described Mahdi as “Deeply repentant and a radically different person from the confused, angry and mistreated young man who committed capital crimes.”.
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The state law establishes that the electric chair is the predetermined execution method, but grants the option to die by shooting or lethal injection.
Mahdi opted for the firing squad as well as another convicted of this state, Brad Sigmonon March 7.
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His lawyers asked for republican governor Henry McMaster to grant him the pardon, something he has never done since he assumed the position in South Carolina.
Twelve executions have taken place in the country so far this year: eight by lethal injection, two by nitrogen inhalation, a controversial method used for the first time in the world by Alabama (Southeast) in 2024, and two for a shooting in South Carolina.
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The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 US states. Six other states (Arizona, California, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee) They observe a moratorium.