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The method is a vivid reminder of the brutality of state killing. That undermines the pro-capital-punishment narrative
On 11 April, South Carolina executed Mikal Mahdi by firing squad. Mahdi had been …
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Mahdi, who killed an officer in 2004, endured torture in his childhood and argued he was denied a fair trial
A prison firing squad in South Carolina executed Mikal Mahdi on Friday, the second recent d…
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Mikal Mahdi, who killed a man in 2004, endured prolonged torture as child and didn’t receive a fair trial, lawyers argue
A 42-year-old man on South Carolina death row is fighting to stop his execution…
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Mikal Mahdi scheduled to be executed by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets
A second South Carolina death row prisoner has asked to die by firing squad …
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