Lawyers for the man accused of killing a health insurance executive in Manhattan said the attorney general was putting “partisan politics over justice.”
Mikal Mahdi’s execution came about a month after the first person in state history was killed in such a manner. Before that, no person had been killed by a firing squad in the United States in 15 years.
This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state’s death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair.
The Los Angeles County district attorney was asking a court to withdraw a resentencing petition. But Lyle and Erik Menendez still have paths to freedom.
More than 35 years after they killed their parents in Beverly Hills, Lyle and Erik Menendez are closer than ever to freedom. Meditation classes, mural painting and mentorship may help.
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