The US Supreme Court refused to stay at the execution earlier that day.
South Carolina executed its second termination squad on April 11 after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to stay in execution earlier in the day.
Inmate Mikal Mahdi was declared to have died at a correctional facility in Colombia at 6:05pm local time. Mahdi chose the shooting squad instead of the electric chair or lethal injection, another method of execution available in South Carolina.
A spokesman for South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster confirmed during the Epoch era that Mahdi’s demand for tolerance was rejected. Before that, on April 8th, the state’s Supreme Court also refused to suspend execution.
Mahdi was sentenced to death in December 2006 after being convicted of murder.
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According to the brief, “The calm murder of Mahadi, a scribe at a convenience store in North Carolina, was captured with cold details about the store’s surveillance.”
After abandoning a stolen vehicle at a gas station, Mahdi encounters the farm of veteran law enforcement officer and firefighter captain James Meyers. He broke into the workshop and took two firearms he found there, Brief said.
After waiting for Myers to go home, he shot nine times with a .22 caliber rifle, poured diesel fuel into the body and set it on fire. He escaped in a truck issued by Myers police and carried weapons. Police arrested him in Florida a few days later, according to the brief.
“Mikal Mahdi is facing executions despite the mitigation evidence presented by his defense attorney barely filling in 15 transcript pages,” the petition said.
This photo, provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections, shows Mikal Mahdi. Revision Bureau via the South Carolina Associated Press
During the judgment process, mitigation factors are facts that support sentence reductions. In contrast, aggravating factors are facts that support increasing the severity of sentences.
“The state Supreme Court upheld Mikal’s death penalty simply because he has never properly applied this court’s sixth amendment precedent, because it explicitly determined that there is a shortage of capital trial lawyers if it has not seen any further signs of childhood trauma,” the petition said.
“If Mahdi’s trial lawyer had not given up before the start of the trial court, the judge of sentencing would have known Mahdi’s violent and traumatic childhood.
The death penalty sentence “is the product of these severe violations of his right to amend Articles 6 and 14, and the court should maintain his enforcement and grants,” the motion said.
The judicial system states, “it is important that the criminal process of society meets the emergence of justice,” according to Richmond Newspaper v. Citing Virginia’s precedent, I am interested in granting petitions to carefully and deliberately review Mahdi’s Sixth Amendment, as “it is important for society’s criminal process to meet the emergence of justice.”
In the worst case scenario, the state will experience slight delays in enforcement while the U.S. Supreme Court considers Mahdi’s case, the allegations said.
“Since it was raised in 11 hours, there is no compelling reason to believe this court will look more positive about the matter.”
