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Botched execution 2026

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  2. A free pass earned?

    A free pass earned?

    A death sentence should not be a license to keep trying until the prisoner dies. That would be cruel.

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  3. In this handout photograph taken and released by South Carolina Department of Corrections on April 10, 2025 shows Mikal Mahdi, 42, to be executed by firing squad for the 2004 murder of an off-duty police officer. A 42-year-old man convicted of the 2004 murder of an off-duty police officer is to be put to death by firing squad in South Carolina on Friday, the second such execution in the US state this year. Myers, a 56-year-old police captain, was shot nine times after he found Mahdi hiding in a shed on his property. His body was then set on fire.

    Man executed by firing squad in South Carolina

    South Carolina executes Mikal Mahdi by firing squad for two 2004 murders, marking the state’s second such execution this year. His lawyers decry a life of…

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