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A SOUTH Carolina firing squad has been accused by experts of botching the execution of a convicted cop killer, leaving him in "excruciating" pain as he bled to death. None of the bullets directly ...

A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina’s second firing squad execution was conscious and likely suffered in extreme pain for as long as a minute after the bullets, meant to ...

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Mikal Mahdi's firing squad execution in South Carolina is under scrutiny after a pathologist's report suggested he remained conscious and suffered extreme pain for up to a minute due to misplaced ...

A South Carolina firing squad tried to shoot a convicted cop killer in the heart and missed in a “botched” execution that left him in “excruciating” pain as he bled out, according to an ...

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