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

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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.Mahdi’s legal team filed a complaint with the South Carolina Supreme Court on Thursday saying that the execution was botched., The filing contained a report from forensic pathologist Dr. Jonathan Arden, who reviewed Mahdi’s autopsy and photographs of the gunshot wounds and bullet fragments.The attorneys claim that only two of the bullets struck Mahdi, and that they largely missed his heart in such a way that he suffered long enough to ..