article_snippet.sent: Last week the court heard how Martin Richard, 8, suffered a slow and painful death .
article_snippet.sent: Last week the trial heard from a trauma surgeon who described how the young Martin Richard suffered terribly before the young Martin Richard bled to death on the street.
article_snippet.sent: Dr David King, a veteran military combat surgeon, said the little boy was gravely injured in the blasts and suffered 'visceral pain'.
article_snippet.sent: King said the young Martin Richard liver, spleen and intestines were twisted and stretched by the blast.
article_snippet.sent: The surgeon, who works at Massachusetts General Hospital, said death would have been intensely painful due to the severe injuries to the young Martin Richard internal organs. '
article_snippet.sent: the young Martin Richard did not die instantaneously,' The surgeon, who works at Massachusetts General Hospital said, noting that internal injuries activate a set of pain receptors that call 'a much more primal, very disturbing kind of pain'.