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Cop killer's final act of defiance
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A South Carolina cop killer refused to offer remorse for his crimes and ignored onlookers before he was shot to death by a prison firing squad.Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by a volunteer three person firing squad for the murder of police captain James Myers, 56, just after 6pm on Friday after opting for the very rare execution method over lethal injection or the electric chair. The cop killer made no final statement before his death and avoided looking at the nine witnesses in the room behind bulletproof glass. Mahdi cried out from beneath a hood over his head as the three bullets to the heart hit him and his arms flexed. A red bullseye that was placed over his heart was pushed into the bullet wound in his chest. He groaned about 45 seconds afterward and his breaths continued for around 80 seconds before he took his final gasp. A doctor declared the inmate dead at 6.05pm, just four minutes after the shots were fired. Captain Myers, Mahdi's victim, was shot nine times before his body was set on fire. The death row inmate also plead guilty to murdering a convenience store clerk, three days before he killed Myers. Posted by: Skidmark 2025-04-12 |
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