Records obtained by the Guardian indicate shooters missed the target on Mikal Mahdi, which lawyers say caused prolonged suffering<\/p>\n
A South Carolina firing squad botched the execution of Mikal Mahdi last month, with shooters missing the target area on the man\u2019s heart, causing him to suffer a prolonged death, according to autopsy records and his attorneys.<\/p>\n
Mahdi, 42, was shot dead<\/a> by corrections employees last month in the second firing squad execution<\/a> this year in South Carolina. The state has aggressively revived capital punishment<\/a> over the last seven months and brought back the controversial firearm method that has rarely been used<\/a> in the modern death penalty era.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Records obtained by the Guardian indicate shooters missed the target on Mikal Mahdi, which lawyers say caused prolonged suffering A South Carolina firing squad botched the execution of Mikal Mahdi last month, with shooters missing the target area on the man\u2019s heart, causing him to suffer a prolonged death, according to autopsy records and his … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}