Overview

• Mikal Mahdi, convicted of killing Officer James Myers in 2004, is set to be executed by firing squad on April 11 at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.
• The South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously rejected Mahdi's final appeal, dismissing claims of inadequate legal representation as repetitive and previously addressed.
• Mahdi admitted to the ambush killing of Officer Myers and an additional murder of a convenience store clerk in North Carolina, for which he received a life sentence.
• The execution will mark the second use of South Carolina's revived firing squad method, following challenges in obtaining lethal injection drugs.
• Governor Henry McMaster remains Mahdi's last potential avenue for clemency, though no South Carolina governor has granted clemency in over four decades.