South Carolina death row inmate Mikal Mahdi has requested that his sentence be carried out by firing squad.
This comes just five weeks after the US state carried out a death sentence in this manner for the first time in decades.
Mahdi was convicted of the 2004 shooting death of Officer James Myers. Myers' wife found his burned body, shot at least eight times, including twice in the head. Mahdi's execution is scheduled for April 11.
Mahdi will be tied to a chair 4,6 meters away from a three-man firing squad. A target will be placed on his chest.
Before this year's case in South Carolina, only three prisoners, all in the state of Utah, had been executed in the U.S. by firing squad in the past 50 years.
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