Mikal Mahdi was the second man in South Carolina to be executed by a three-person firing squad on April 11, after admitting to killing an off-duty police officer in 2004.

Mikal Mahdi, a South Carolina inmate executed by firing squad, is said to have died in 'excruciating conscious pain,' suggests an autopsy report in a legal complaint filed by his attorneys. He was executed in April after being convicted of two 2004 murders.