Mikal Mahdi executed by firing squad in South Carolina for off-duty officer's brutal murder

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "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," Myers' wife, Amy Tripp Myers, testified through tears.
54% : "As I screamed those blood-curdling screams of pain and anguish, I instantly knew that the man with whom I had just spent the last six years of my life dreaming of a beautiful future was gone like a vapor.
48% : Another two executions, both by lethal injection, are scheduled this month: Moises Sandoval Mendoza in Texas on April 23 and James Osgood in Alabama on April 24.
41% : " Mahdi's attorneys had been arguing that he should be spared because he never got the mental health care he "desperately needed" as a child who repeatedly threatened suicide and endured "extraordinary abuse and trauma.
37% : " David Weiss, Mahdi's attorney, said his client chose the firing squad for Friday's execution because it was "the lesser of three evils," saying he risked being "burned and mutilated" in an electric chair or "suffering a lingering death" by lethal injection.

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