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SC lawmakers demand independent investigation into claims of 'botched' firing squad execution

Two House members asked the governor, prisons director and top legislators to investigate whether Mikal Mahdi's execution in April followed protocol.

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South Carolina inmate's firing squad execution 'botched,' bullets mostly missed heart, lawyers say

Mikal Mahdi was the second man in South Carolina to be executed by a three-person firing squad on April 11, after admitting to killing an off-duty police officer in 2004.

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Cop killer dies after ‘botched’ firing squad execution; witness in the room reveals how it happened

A botched firing squad execution left Mikal Mahdi conscious and in agony for up to a minute, after bullets missed his heart, a pathologist alleges.

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South Carolina to perform rare firing squad execution

Sigmon chose the firing squad out of fear of more suffering if given a lethal injection or put in the electric chair Barring any last-minute stay, the US State of South Carolina plans to ...

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A Progressive Justice Billed This Method of Execution as “Relatively Quick and Painless.” She Was Wrong.

Last week, we learned another hard lesson about executions, namely that there is no foolproof way of killing someone.

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Someone’s not telling the truth about South Carolina’s death penalty | Opinion

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall writes that the state of South Carolina say everything went according to plan, but that’s not ...

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South Carolina botched this man's execution. But that’s not the main problem.

Some U.S. politicians insist that the execution methods in their state are relatively painless. But it’s all a farce.

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