COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) – In just days before his scheduled execution, one South Carolina inmate on death row has filed a petition for clemency with Gov. Henry McMaster, asking to commute the sentence from death to life in prison.
Mikal Mahdi is set for execution by firing squad on April 11 at 6 p.m. at a Columbia prison for the murder of an off-duty Orangeburg officer.
Mahdi would be the second in the state to ever die by firing squad…