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| Cop killer's final act of defiance |
| 2025-04-12 |
| [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 |
| #4 Where is the justice when it takes 20+++ years. It should have happen 15+ years ago. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-04-12 13:32 |
| #3 ^^ Was thinking the same thing, Mike. I only learned about his killing spree after doing a Web search. At least the Daily Mail spared us what this scumbag's last meal was. Let's all enjoy the extra oxygen. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2025-04-12 13:20 |
| #2 And most of the coverage omitted the minor detail that he'd killed somebody else as well. The world is better off. A hard truth, but truth nevertheless. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2025-04-12 07:44 |
| #1 We could play "Guess the Race", but you already know how that will turn out. Was Islam also involved? |
| Posted by: Crusader 2025-04-12 00:54 |