His attorney claimed that the state shooter missed the heart of a South Carolina police killer who chose to fire the squad last month to strike his execution and end up suffering an outrageous, long time.
Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed on April 11 for murdering an off-duty policeman in 2004.
Mahdi’s lawyer said he chose to perform with a fatal injection or electrocution to shoot the squad, as he thought it would be the fastest and most painless method of the three options.
However, an independent autopsy showed that Mahdi’s execution did not go as planned and the convicted killer endured the pain, far beyond the expected ’10-15 second’ window.
In a filing filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday, Mahathir’s lawyer claimed that the state’s No. 3 shooter shot below expectations and missed his heart, making his abdomen higher than his abdomen, piercing his liver and pancreas.
As the shooting was fired, Mahathir cried and his arms bent, the Associated Press reported. Hearing his breath and groans, at least one minute later, there was no formal declaration of death in four minutes.
Mikal Mahdi’s attorney David Weiss told Dailymail.com in a written statement.
Mikal suffered an incredible death. We don’t know what went wrong, but his execution was inhumane.
For anyone with the same choice as Mikal, this meaning is frightening. South Carolina refused to admit that they could not continue due to the failure of the execution. ”
Mikal Mahdi, 42, was fired on April 11.
Mahdi was headed over his head and cried as three bullets hit him and his arms bent. After that, he chanted for about 45 seconds and his breathing lasted for about 80 seconds.
Mahdi’s autopsy found only two very different bullet injuries, even though they were three shooters
Mahdi’s death is the second time a prisoner inmate, shooting squads in South Carolina this year.
The autopsy ordered by his lawyer found that despite three gunmen, each had a live show.
His lawyer believes the execution was because the volunteer prison employee missed it or was a target on Mahdi’s chest to mark his inner position.
The South Carolina Department of Corrections performed his own autopsy on Mahdi earlier and suggested that all three bullets hit him, two of which entered his body at the same location and followed the same path into his body.
This happened in target practice, Chrysti Shane, a spokesman for the Department of Corrections, told the Associated Press Thursday.
Mahdi’s legal team claims the state offers “very sparse, with much less details and photos in scope than normal releases.”
They also claimed there was not enough evidence to support the corrections department’s claim that two bullets entered the same location.
“The shooter missed the expected target area and the evidence shows that he was hit by only two bullets instead of the prescribed three bullets,” said Dr. Jonathan Arden, a pathologist hired by the Mahdi team.
Arden said it could take 30-60 seconds to lose consciousness, two to four times longer than what experts employed in the state predicted.
During that time, as the lungs tried to expand to broken ribs and broken sternum, as the lungs tried to expand, while also experiencing “air hunger” (a desperate, suffocating feeling) because his damaged lungs failed to map enough oxygen in enough oxygen.
‘gentlemen. Mahdi elected the shooting team, which the court approved on the assumption that the SCDC could be entrusted to perform its direct steps: positioning the heart; putting the target on it; achieving that goal, Mahathir’s attorney wrote in a letter to the South Carolina Supreme Court.
“This confidence is obviously misplaced.”
Mahdi applied for leniency before his death. In appeal, his attorney blames crimes on difficult childhood
In 2004, Mahdi admitted to killing 56-year-old police captain James Myers. Myers was shot nine times and his body burned
In a report summarizing his findings, Arden said the state’s official autopsy does not include X-rays, which will allow independent verification of the results.
Arden also said that only one photo took Mahdi’s body, without close-ups of the wound. And he was not checked to determine where the target was and how it was consistent with the damage the bullet did to his shirt.
“I noticed where the target was placed on Mikal’s torso,” said David Weiss, a Mahathir lawyer, and I remember thinking, “I’m certainly not an expert in human anatomy, but in my opinion, the target looks low.” ”
Dr. Arden said that in his 40-year career, he had never heard of two bullets entering the same location where the human body had previously entered.
The autopsy only found damage in one of the four chambers of Mahdi’s heart, the right ventricle.
However, his liver and pancreas were widely damaged, which showed that the shooter was targeting too low.
By contrast, Brad Sigmon, who opened fire in South Carolina in March, was executed – his autopsy showed three obvious bullet wounds, his heart “disappeared” and his body was killed.
Sigmon’s autopsy also included X-rays, multiple photos, and examination of his clothes.
Arden added that without X-rays or other internal scans, the state’s claim for two-thread through holes cannot be confirmed.
Attorney Weiss said the alleged error in Mahdi’s execution posed a major problem.
“I think this raises incredibly difficult issues for the types of training and oversight that are underway for this process,” Weiss told the Associated Press.
“As an outsider, I obviously had a problem here after reading his autopsy report.
“We should figure out what goes wrong when you are going to perform the most serious, most serious type of function.”
South Carolina has executed two death row prisoners through the sacking squad since the beginning of this year
Brad Sigmon’s autopsy, shot and killed in South Carolina in March, showed three very different bullet wounds, his heart was “destroyed” (pictured above)
After that, Mahdi’s body was cremated to prevent further testing.
The 42-year-old admitted to killing public safety official James Myers in 2004, shooting him at least eight times before burning his body.
Brad Sigmon, 67, was fired in March
Myers’ burnt remains were discovered by his wife in a shed in the backyard, the backdrop of the wedding for more than a year.
Mahdi also pleaded guilty to the murder of Myers three days ago by a convenience store clerk.
He was arrested in Florida while driving an unmarked police pickup truck from Myers.
His attorneys sought leniency from Gov. Henry McMaster, but the Republican CEO of South Carolina never approved any previous petition for leniency.
‘gentlemen. Mahdi’s life is a tragic story about a child being abandoned at every step. ” his attorney said in a statement.
They say that when Mahdi was four, his mother fled her abusive husband and the boy was raised by his turbulent, mentally ill father.
“Mikal spent more than 80% of his life in prison and was in solitary confinement within 8,000 hours, between the ages of 14 and 21,” his lawyer said.
“Now 42, Mikal is deeply regretful with the confused, angry and abused young people committed capital crimes and is a very different person. ”
Mahdi also marks the fifth inmate executed in South Carolina in less than eight months. However, South Carolina lawmakers say this method is the fastest and most humane way to kill death row prisoners
In his trial, prosecutors called Mahdi a “microscopic”
Mahdi’s final appeal was denied hours before his execution.
His sentence was held on the evening of April 11 in the death room of Columbia Prison, with more than a dozen witnesses sitting behind bulletproof glass.
Mahdi was tied to a chair with a hood on his head and a white square with Red Bull eyes placed on his heart.
He did not make a final statement before his death and avoided eye contact with the gathered witnesses.
At the 2004 trial, prosecutor David Pascoe called Mahdi “the epitome of evil.”
“He was filled with hatred and malice,” Pasco said.
