Less than four minutes later, he was pronounced dead.
According to prison officials, he asked for a medium-cooked ribeye steak, broccoli, collard greens, cheesecake, sweet tea, and mushroom risotto for his final meal.
After confessing to killing 56-year-old Orangeburg Department of Public Safety Capt. James Myers on his property on July 18, 2004, Mahdi was given a death sentence in 2006.
When Myers’ wife discovered him in their shed, which was close to a petrol station where Mahdi tried to buy gas using a credit card that had been stolen.
Myers had been shot at least eight times and his body was burned.
