Cop killer's final act of defiance before firing squad execution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : In 2004, Mahdi admitted to killing 56-year-old police captain James Myers She testified: 'I found the love of my life, my soulmate, the partner that my life revolved around, lifeless, lying in a pool of blood and his body burned by someone who didn't even know him.' 'As I screamed those blood-curdling screams of pain and anguish, I instantly knew that the man whom I had just spent the last six years of my life dreaming of a beautiful future was gone like a vapor.' The inmate's defense lawyers, however, argued that he should be spared from execution because he never got 'desperately needed' mental health care as a child. Mahdi reportedly had a history of threatening suicide and endured 'extraordinary abuse and trauma,' USA Today reported.
43% : A doctor declared the inmate dead at 6.05pm Mahdi chose the method because he believed the electric chair would 'cook him alive' and feared that death by lethal injection would send fluid into his lungs and drown him, according to his lawyers, The Mirror reported.
42% : South Carolina now has 28 inmates on death row, with just one man sentenced in the past decade.
41% : 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.

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