South Carolina kills executes second man by firing squad in 5 weeks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.
41% : Along with Sigmon's firing squad death last month, three other South Carolina prisoners have been executed via lethal injection since September.
40% : A doctor checked him for a little over a minute before declaring him dead. Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.
37% : Death in a hail of bullets has been used to punish mutinies and desertion in armies, as frontier justice in America's Old West and as a tool of terror and political repression in the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
36% : It has been used to punish mutinies and desertion in armies, as frontier justice in America's Old West and as a tool of terror and political repression in the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
33% : Florida, Oklahoma, Arizona and Texas have executed men by lethal injection, while South Carolina has used both the firing squad and lethal injection.

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