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Two House members asked the governor, prisons director and top legislators to investigate whether Mikal Mahdi's execution in ...
Mikal Mahdi, a South Carolina inmate executed by firing squad, is said to have died in 'excruciating conscious pain,' ...
Autopsy results following SC's firing-squad execution of Mikal Mahdi in April show bullets largely missed his heart, ...
A botched firing squad execution left Mikal Mahdi conscious and in agony for up to a minute, after bullets missed his heart, ...
A pathologist hired by death row inmates' attorneys says a South Carolina man executed by firing squad was conscious and ...
The autopsy notes two bullet wounds even though there were three shooters, and a forensic expert says the misfires likely ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina's second firing squad execution was conscious ...
According to a status report filed by Mikal Mahdi’s lawyers, the autopsy and eyewitness accounts of his death raise several ...
Cop-killer Mikal Mahdi yelled in pain when he was shot inside of the state’s death chamber on April 11. He was executed for ...
Mikal Mahdi was the second man in South Carolina to be executed by a three-person firing squad on April 11, after admitting ...
An autopsy later revealed that none of the bullets hit his heart directly, and that his chest showed only two bullet wounds ...
Representative Neal Collins (R - Pickens) and Representative Justin Bamberg (D - Bamberg) filed a letter to South Carolina ...