Overview
- Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by a three-person firing squad on April 11, 2025, at Broad River Correctional Institution in South Carolina.
- This marked the second firing squad execution in the state within five weeks, following a 13-year pause in executions due to lethal injection drug shortages.
- Mahdi was convicted for the 2004 murders of off-duty officer James Myers, whose body he burned after shooting him, and a convenience store clerk in North Carolina.
- His final appeals, including clemency requests, were rejected by both the state and U.S. Supreme Courts earlier in the week.
- Mahdi's defense highlighted his traumatic upbringing and prolonged solitary confinement as mitigating factors, but these arguments failed to prevent his execution.