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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina's second firing squad execution was conscious ...

Lawyers for man executed by firing squad in South Carolina say bullets mostly missed his heart and he suffered in extreme pain for as long as a minute.

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“I noticed where the target was placed on Mikal’s torso, and I remember thinking to myself, ‘I’m certainly not an expert in human anatomy ... worker performs a chest X-ray on an inmate ...

During that time Mahdi would have suffered excruciating pain as his lungs tried to expand and move into a broken sternum and ribs ... not an expert in human anatomy, but it appears to me that ...

Mikal Mahdi died in an execution method that’s meant to be quick and certain by destroying the inmate’s heart. His lawyers ...