During his years on death row, Mahdi stabbed a prison guard and struck another employee with a concrete block, according to the prosecution.
Who said that Mahdi’s nature was “violence” and that he used brutality to solve problems.
According to jail records, he was also found in possession of items that might have been used to break out, such as sharpened metal that might have been used as a knife.
Friday’s execution was the sixth execution in South Carolina in the last eight months and the second time in five weeks that an inmate has been executed by firing squad.
Only one of the 26 death row inmates in Palmetto State has received a death sentence in the last ten years since Mahdi’s passing.
