WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — A man who was serving a life sentence for a Winston-Salem murder is scheduled to be executed in South Carolina in connection with another murder case, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.
Mikal D. Mahdi , 41, will be executed on April 11. Two weeks before that date, he will be asked to choose whether he will be executed by lethal injection, electric chair or firing squad.
Mahdi was sentenced to death in 2006 for murder, burglary and grand larceny. In July 17, 2004, he shot James Myers, a police captain from Orangeburg, South Carolina, nine times before covering the body in diesel fuel and lighting it on fire.
Mahdi is also serving a life sentence from North Carolina for murder. Three days prior to killing Myers, Mahdi shot and killed Christopher Boggs, a convenience store worker in Winston-Salem.
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