For a man executed by firing squad in South Carolina, lawyers say that bullets mostly missed his heart

In the second firing squad of South Carolina, a person was killed last month, which was conscious of excessive pain after a minute of bullets, which meant that quickly to stop her heart, hit her less than expected, according to a pathologist used by her lawyers. According to a pathologist report, a corpse testing of Mikal Mahdi’s torso showed only two separate wounds from three volunteers prison employees, all in execution on April 11, which was filed with a letter to the Supreme Court of the state on Thursday, titled “Notice of Bated Executive.” In 2004, Mahdi performed by firing the squad on a fatal injection or electrocution in the murder of an off-duty police officer. All three guns fired together and jail officials believe that all three bullets hit Mahdi, two of them entered their bodies at the same place and on the same path, the reform department spokesman Christie Shane said on Thursday. This has happened earlier when the firing squad team practices his job to set fire to the prisoner from 15 feet (4.6 m) away. A pathologist hired by lawyers for condemned prisoners said that there is not enough independent evidence from the dead body – where only one picture of the body was taken and Mahdi’s clothes were not examined – to create that conclusion. Dr. Jonathan Orden said, “Shooters recalled the target area and indicate evidence that he had only hit two bullets, not the prescribed three. As a result, gunshot wounds resulted in long -term death process as a result of the nature of internal injuries. Orden said the possibility meant that Mahdi took 30 to 60 seconds to lose consciousness – two to four times longer than 15 seconds which had predicted the execution of properly organized by the Ordeen and the state. During that time, Mahdi suffered painful pain as his lungs tried to expand and move in a broken sternum and ribs, as well as “air hunger”, damaged lungs struggled and failed to bring it into the necessary oxygen, said Arden. “Mr. Mahdi chose the firing squad, and the court approved it, based on the assumption that SCDC could be assigned to take straightforward steps: heart detection; and keeping a goal on it; and while hitting that goal. This belief was clearly wrong,” Mahdi’s lawyers wrote in the South Carolina Supreme Court letter. Eyewitnesses heard him crying because the shots were fired to Mahd to cry because the shots were fired, some 45 seconds later groaning again and excluded a last low lament before taking his last breath in 75 seconds. 42 -year -old Mahdi was accepted in 2004 after killing Orangeberg Public Safety Officer James Myers, shooting at least eight times before burning his body. Myers’ wife found him in the couple’s Calhoun county shed, which was their marriage background 15 months ago. The official autopsy did not include X-rays to allow the results to be verified independently; Only one picture was taken from Mahdi’s body, and there was no close-up of wounds; And their clothing was not investigated to determine where the target was laid and how it was aligned with the loss of their shirts, Arden said in a report while summering his conclusions. “I noticed where the target was placed on the torso of Mikal, and I remember myself thinking,” I definitely do not expect human anatomy, but it seems to me that the target looks less, “David Weis said, a lawyer of Mahdi, who was also a witness to his death. A gel worker performs an X-ray of chest on a prisoner and a medical professional uses a stethoscope to aim on the professional heart, Shane said. The official autopsy report said in the official autopsy report, Pathologist Dr. Bradley Marcus wrote that there were only two wounds, the same reason is due to two bullets entering the body at one place. Arden said that in his 40 years, he ignored his 40 years of examining the dead bodies and said that Marcus told him in a conversation that the possibility was remote. In the dead body, only one of the four chambers of Mahdi’s heart suffered damage – the right ventricle. After the bullets continue under the bullets, their liver and pancreas suffered widespread damage. Arden wrote, “The wounds of entry were in the lowest area of ​​the chest, which was just above the boundary along the stomach, which is an area that does not dominate the heart on a large scale.” In his conversation, Marcus also said that the severe amount of liver damage was not estimated and he wrote in his report. Marcus refused to talk about the body examination on reaching the phone on Thursday morning. The Autopsy uprooted the heart on the first man killed by the firing squad. Unlike the dead body examination on Brad Sigmon, the first person killed by the squad in the state showed three different bullet wounds and his heart was provoked, said Arden. He said that the body examination report in that case included X-rays, adequate photos and a cursory examination of their clothes. Without X-rays or other internal scans to follow the path of tablets through Mahdi’s body, no additional light can be shed on the two-balllets-thrro-one-hole claim, the order said. Weiss said he was shocked that the body was done in the examination even after the pathologist saw only two holes in his chest. How the execution was done, this clear errors are a major problem, he said. “I think that the type of training and inspection in this process arises incredibly difficult questions,” Ves said. Weiss said, “It was clear for me that on reading his Autopsy report, it became clear as a person here. The funeral of Mahdi’s body was performed to stop another corpse examination, Ves said. South Carolina has allowed prisoners to condemn the method of death of South Carolina, which allows prisoners to condemn whether to die by fatal injections, electric chairs or firing teams. In the last one year, three have chosen deadly injections, but the last two chose for the firing squad, he said that he is afraid of other methods – the dead body examination has shown that the deadly injection causes a crowd of fluid in the lungs, and the body has been irritated after electrocu.The lawyers of Mahdi said, “The purpose of the provisions of the choice of South Carolina is that a condemned prisoner in South Carolina will never be subjected to execution by a method, which he is more inhuman to another method, which is available,” Supreme Court’s Supreme Court’s decision, “is more inhuman than another method.” “It is necessary for that option to understand how this bot took place., Twenty -six people remain on the death line of South Carolina. Stephen Stanko, who has two death sentence for murders in Hori County and Georgetown County, is out of the appeal and possibly determined to die in June.