Mikal Mahdi | |
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 2009 mug shot of Mahdi | |
| Born | Mikal Deen Mahdi March 20, 1983 Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | April 11, 2025 (aged 42) |
| Cause of death | Execution by firing squad |
| Criminal status | Executed |
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| Victims | 3 |
| Date | Virginia, North and South Carolina July 14–17, 2004 |
| Country | United States |
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| Imprisoned at | Broad River Correctional Institution, South Carolina |
Mikal Deen Mahdi[a] (March 20, 1983 – April 11, 2025) was an American convicted spree killer who was executed for the murder of a police officer in South Carolina. Over a period of three days in July 2004, Mahdi, then a resident of Virginia, went on a multistate crime spree, committing carjacking, firearm robbery, and three murders, two of which he was tried and found guilty.[1]
Mahdi fled Virginia after murdering a man in Brunswick County following a drug deal gone wrong. Although Mahdi confessed to that crime, he was never tried because of his two later murder convictions.[1] Mahdi then robbed and killed a 29-year-old convenience store clerk, Christopher Jason Boggs, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on July 15, 2004. Two days after the murder of Boggs, Mahdi carjacked a man and stole his car in Columbia, South Carolina before fleeing to a local farm in Calhoun County, where he murdered 56-year-old off-duty police officer James Myers, whose body was doused in diesel fuel and burned by Mahdi.[2]
Mahdi went on the run for about four days before he was arrested in Florida on July 21, 2004, and extradited back to South Carolina to be charged with the fatal shooting of Myers. Mahdi was convicted of the murder and other charges in South Carolina and sentenced to death in 2006. After his extradition to North Carolina for trial, Mahdi was sentenced to life without parole in 2011 for the murder of Boggs.[3][4]
On April 11, 2025, Mahdi was executed by firing squad—the second in South Carolina and the fifth in the United States to undergo a firing squad execution since 1976.[5][6]
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- ^ a b "Condemned SC inmate's defense rested on a sheriff's affidavit. Then the sheriff reversed course". The Post and Courier. April 3, 2025.
- ^ "Years awaiting execution: Four men with ties to T&D Region on death row". The Times and Democrat. September 17, 2017.
- ^ "A 'malignant heart' — Mahdi sentenced to death in slaying of officer". The Times and Democrat. December 8, 2006.
- ^ "Virginia man gets life for killing NC clerk". The Times and Democrat. December 14, 2011.
- ^ "Another SC inmate chooses firing squad execution, 3 weeks after state's first use of the method". The Post and Courier. March 28, 2025.
- ^ "Cop-killer called "evil" is second to die by firing squad in South Carolina". The State. April 11, 2025.
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