South Carolina defines the date for the 5th version in less than 7 months

South Carolina has planned the execution of an inmate who was convicted of fatal shooting of a police officer, which would make him fifth person that the state killed because he resumed the executions after an involuntary 13-year break in autumn.

The 41 -year -old Mikal Mahdi is to be executed in a prison in Columbia on April 11th at 6 p.m., the Supreme Court said on Friday.

Mahdi can choose to die through a fatal injection, the electric chair or a firing squad. He has to make a decision by March 28, or is killed by the electric chairman.

On March 7, Brad Sigmon became the first prisoner to be carried out by shooting in the United States in 15 years when he was killed in South Carolina. Since 1976, only three other inmates in the United States have been carried out according to this method, and all were in Utah.

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Three other prisoners were brought into death in South Carolina since the state resumed executions in September. Freddie Owens on September 20, Richard Moore on November 1st and Marion Bowman Jr. On January 31, everyone died from fatal injection. Sigmon chose the firing squad due to concerns about the longer suffering of the three other inmates, which they had killed by fatal injection.

The court postponed a potential sixth execution for Steven Bixby, who was convicted of two police officers in a land dispute in Abbeville County in December 2003. Bixby should be killed in May, but the court decided that a judge must first determine whether he is mentally competent.

A psychologist said that Bixby understood what led to his death sentence, but he also believes that blood contains the DNA of Jesus Christ in his clothes on the night of murders.

Mahdi's lawyer, David Weiss, said his client had a long story of restless behaviors that started as a child.

Already in second class Mahdi suffered from mental despair and discussed self -harm, said Weiss. When he was a teenager and spent weeks in solitary confinement after he was convicted of breaking and attacking a police officer in Virginia.

“He was repeatedly failed by his own family and the judicial system, which had failed to see him as he was: a wounded child who needs support,” said Weiss in an explanation. “Mikal history is one of trauma, neglect and the many missed opportunities to offer him the security and compassion that every child should have.”

Mahdi Stahl on July 14, 2004 in Virginia a gun and a car in Virginia when he was 21 years old. The next day he shot an employee in North Carolina when the employee checked his identification. A few days later he sanded someone at a crossing in Columbia, South Carolina.

On July 18, 2004, Mahdi hid on the run for these crimes in Orangeburg, South Carolina, the shed of the public security officer James Myers. Mahdi attacked Meyers when the officer returned from a birthday party for his wife, sister and daughter, the prosecutors said.

The 56 -year -old Myers was shot eight or nine times, including twice in the head after falling to the ground. A pathologist said at least seven of the shots would have been fatal.

Mahdi then set Myers' body on fire and ran away. Myers' wife discovered her husband's body in the shed that she had used for the background of her wedding.

On July 21, 2004, Mahdi was custody in Florida. When one of the officers involved in his arrest learned what he wanted in South Carolina, he thanked Mahdi that he hadn't shot on him. Mahdi told him that the only reason why he didn't do it was because he was skeptical that he was able to successfully shoot two officers and their K-9.

Mahdi behind bars was caught three times with tools with which he could escape. One was an all -all core and the others were homemade handcuffs, including one that was found under his tongue in his process.

Mahdi stabbed a guard in the death cell and met another worker with a specific block. In three times, the prison staff found a sharp metal in its cell, which could be used as a knife.

During his trial, Mahdi's lawyers said that her client was the second son of a woman who was married to an arranged marriage at the age of 16. His family described a chaotic childhood, although no one said about abuse or mental illnesses.

Mahdi owed himself guilty of murdering and was convicted by judge Clifton Newman, who at that time told the post and Kurier he was not sure whether he believed in the death penalty, but the case grew greater than his beliefs.

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“My challenge and engagement during my entire judicial career was to mitigate justice with mercy and to find humanity in every defendant that I condemned,” said Newman, when he handed over Mahdi punishment. “This feeling of humanity does not seem to exist in Mikal Deen Mahdi”

Once one of the most busy executions, South Carolina took up the executions in September, after a 13-year break, which was partly caused by the state, due to the concerns of the pharmaceutical companies to obtain fatal injection medication that they had sold the medicines to state officials.

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The state legislature then passed a shield law that allowed officials to keep fatal injection drug suppliers privately. The legislature also approved the change of shooting as a further execution method about difficulties in receiving the medication.

South Carolina has executed 47 inmates since the death penalty was resumed in the United States in 1976. In the early 2000s, the state carried out average three executions per year. Only nine states have killed more inmates.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.