Fire brigade squad “botched up” death series execution as the inmate suffers “agonizing” duration of death, which bleed up to the chair

A South Carolina -Wirkader was accused by experts that he had botched the execution of a convicted police officer and left him in “agonizing” pain when he bleed to death.

None of the balls hit the heart of Mikal Mahdi directly, as it should happen during execution, an autopsy commissioned by the state.

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The 42 -year -old Mikal Mahdi was shot by the firing group on April 11th and marked South Carolina's second execution in a little more than a month.

According to the NPR's report, an autopsy from Mahdi breast only showed two gunshot wounds instead of three instead of three from the trio of prison workers who volunteered for the squad.

It was shown that the balls injured his liver and other inner organs, but missed his heart, which continued to beat and gave him alive for about a minute, experts said.

The autopsy was submitted on Thursday by the Mahdi lawyers with a letter to the state's Supreme Court entitled “Note of Botched Execution”.

“Mr. Mahdi had about 30 to 60 seconds after his shot and suffered about 30 to 60 seconds for about 30 to 60 seconds,” wrote the pathologist Dr. Jonathan Arden in his analysis of the autopsy.

Arden, who was hired by Mahdi's Legal Team to check the autopsy, added that Mahdi “reacts alive and longer than intended or expected”.

Dr. Carl Wigren, a forensic pathologist who checked the autopsy documents for NPR, said: “He won't die immediately.”

He added: “I think it took some time to bleed.”

Mahdi was sentenced to death for the murder of the 2004 public security officer, which was shot nine times and was set up in a shed in which he had only married his wife 15 months earlier.

He was also convicted of murder of two other people and carjacking and firearm robbery.

The murderer decided to be executed by shooting the fatal injection or the electric chair when he feared that he would be “burned and mutilated” or “to suffer a continuing death,” said his lawyer.

At a metal chair under a hood and strapped with a red bully Goal Mahdi placed above his heart, did not give the last words and refused to look at the nine witnesses behind the bulletproof glass.

He screamed and moved his arms when three prison employees rounded off into his chest, and then groaned twice before taking a last breath 80 seconds later.

A doctor explained to him four minutes after firing the shots.

Even though South CarolinaThe constitution prohibits cruel or unusual punishment, the state Supreme Court Ruled last year that firing groups are not cruel – the claimed that death occurs within 15 seconds.

The judges wrote: “The evidence in front of us convince us – although an inmate that is carried out via the firing squad, probably feels pain and perhaps agonizing pain – that the pain will only take ten to fifteen seconds.

“Unless there is a massive botch of the execution, in which every member of the shooting squad simply misses the heart of the occupant.”

A doctor who was found in the comment area of ​​the state's autopsy that “it is assumed” that two balls are a single wound.

But pathologists who checked the case showed doubts, with Wigren explained: “I think the chances for this are pretty tiny.”

A doctor found in the comment area to the autopsy.

But pathologists who checked were skeptical that two balls went through exactly the same little hole.

“I think the chances for it are pretty tiny,” said Wigren.

Jeffrey Collins, an Associated Press reporter, wrote that he heard Mahdi twice about 45 seconds after the shots.

He claimed Mahdi breathed a further 80 seconds before he finally grabbed air.

In his report, the pathologist Arden concluded: “Both the forensic medical evidence and the reported eyewitness observations confirm that Mr. Mahdi was alive and reacted longer than intended or expected.”

Mahdi's execution was the fifth in the state in less than eight months and the 12th in the USA this year.

During his trial, the deputy lawyer David Pascoe described him “the epitome of evil” and said: “His heart and his mind are full of hatred and malice.”

Myers' Mrs. Amy Tripp Myers gave a heartbreaking testimony: “I found the love of my life, my soul mate, the partner that my life turned lifelessly, lifelessly in one pool Burned by blood and his body by someone who didn't even know him. “

In a letter written before his death, Mahdi admitted: “I guilty … what I did is unlikely.”

Despite one last advance by his legal team and his childhood Teacher Republican governor Henry McMaster demanded the Gnüsenz and denied an appointment at the last minute.

The United States' Supreme Court also rejected its final petition.

The death of Mahdi followed the execution of 67-year-old Brad Sigmon in March, the first execution of firing goods in South Carolina after a 13th break.

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