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Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the South Carolina Supreme Court on Tuesday that the state’s old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and …

Four South Carolina death row inmates say the electric chair and firing squad execution methods are cruel and unusual punishments.

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Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that the state's old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments. Attorneys for the inmates also plan to argue Tuesday that a 2023 law meant to allow lethal injections to restart keeps secret too many details about the new drug and protocol used to kill prisoners. In the balance are the death sentences of 33 inmates who are on South Carolina&#x...

Lawyers for 4 death row inmates who have run out of appeals are expected to argue that the states electric chair and firing squad are cruel punishments

No legislation has been proposed to add nitrogen gas, which was used to kill inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith last month

South Carolina says all three execution methods allowed in the state — electrocution, lethal injection, and now, firing squad — fit existing protocols.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that the state’s old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments. Attorneys for the inmates also plan to argue Tuesday that a 2023 law meant to allow lethal […]

Death row inmates argued to the South Carolina Supreme Court that the state's old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual.

Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that the state’s old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments.