Lawyers for man executed by firing squad in South Carolina say bullets mostly missed his heart

Alexia Bădoiu

(8 May 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Columbia, South Carolina - 11 April 2025 1. Wide of banner reading (English): "USA: 1618 executions 1977 - Present. Stop executions" 2. Wide protestor outside corrections facility ASSOCIATED PRESS Durham, North Carolina - 7 May 2025 3. SOUNDBITE (English) David Weiss, Attorney for Mikal Mahdi: "What the medical examiner, the pathologist found was that even though the execution protocol was supposed to strike Mikal's heart directly, just as the