When, on July 18, Mr. Mahdi hid in a barn in the house of James Myers, a public safety officer in Orangeburg, SC De Schuur was in the vicinity of a gas station where Mr. Mahdi had tried in vain to buy gas with a stolen credit card and left the stolen vehicle behind.
Then Mr. Myers, 56, returned to the house, infected him Mahdi in an ambush and shot at least eight times, according to the court reports. Mr. Mahdi then put the body of Mr. Myers on fire and fled. The victim’s wife found his body in the barn, according to records.
Mr Weiss, the lawyer, said on Thursday in an interview that Mr. Mahdi “takes full responsibility for the crimes he has committed.”
“He knows how terrible they were, he knows how much pain he caused, and he really does his best to lead a kind of life of the Spirit,” said Mr. Weiss. He added that the implementation process of South Carolina, in which a prisoner in the death cell chooses how to be killed, “shows that we have this kind of fruitless search to find the right way to kill people. And I think there is really no right way to kill people at the end of the day.”
Mr. Weiss said Mr. Mahdi grew up in an insulting household. His father abused his mother, who fled the house when Mr. Mahdi was 4. As a result, Mr. Mahdi suffered from depression and mental health problems, Mr Weiss said, and when his school tried to help him, his father pulled him out.
Mr. Mahdi’s life went from there, Mr Weiss said: He started to steal to support himself and his brother because their father, who had his own mental illness, was not working. He went to the youth prison at the age of 14. He spent the next seven years in and out of prison before committing the two murders.
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