COLUMBIA, S.C.—A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in the state since the death penalty resumed last fall following a 13-year pause.
Mikal Mahdi’s execution will take place April 11 at 6 p.m. at a prison in the capital of Columbia, the state Supreme Court announced Friday.
The court postponed a potential sixth execution, that of Steven Bixby, who killed two police officers in an Abbeville County land dispute in December 2003. Bixby was slated to be put to death in May, but the court decided that a judge first needs to determine if he is mentally competent….