Maikal Madi’s execution by rifle was made by a three -member excerpt on Friday afternoon – the details are shocked
A 42 -year -old killer was led to Friday before an executive extract at Southern Carolinain the second execution by rifle in this US state in five weeks. Had preceded the execution with the same method of Brad Sigonwhich was the first of this kind in the US after 2010.
THE Maikal Madi He had been sentenced to the last sentence of James Meyers, a 56 -year -old policeman in 2004. He had also confessed that he had killed a mini market three days earlier.
The execution was made by a three -member excerpt at 6:01 on Friday afternoon (local time, 01:01 Saturday morning in Greece), according to a statement by her penitentiary service. South carolina.
The murder He was tied handcuffed in a chair, wore a hood on his head and had a paper target placed at the point of the heartreported at a press conference of journalists who were present in the execution.
“Tonight, the state of South Carolina executed him by rifle, a heinous act taken from the darkest chapters of history that has no place in a civilized society,” said the David Weissone of Madi’s lawyers.
In South Carolina legislation the default method of execution is the electric chairbut allowed to select deaths to either choose either the deadly injection either the executive excerpt.
The executive excerpt was chosen by Maikal Madias was the case in the case of death Brad Sigon On March 7th.
Mady’s lawyers had asked the Republican ruler of South Carolina in vain to award him grace, something that the Henry Macmaster He has never done since 2017 when he took over his duties.
Since the beginning of the year they have been done so far 12 executions of deaths in the US: Eight with deadly injections, two with nitrogen inhalation – a controversial method used for the first time in the world in Alabama in 2024 – and two from an executive excerpt (both in South Carolina).
The death penalty has been removed to 23 of the 50 US states. In the other six (Arizona, California, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee) a moratorium is applied to its imposition at the behest of their rulers.
Source :Skai
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