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A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate. Friday's execution will be the second time in the past five weeks the ...

A South Carolina man on death row prepares to be put to death by firing squad, as his lawyer says the case is a matter of "appropriate punishment" rather than guilt.

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart simultaneously with three bullets.

There won’t be any kind of countdown heard or seen by witnesses before three volunteers all with live ammunition fire on Mikal Mahdi on Friday in the death chamber at a Columbia prison.

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