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South Carolina wants to bring back executions using firing squad and electric chair, with one state prosecutor saying that prisoners' deaths don't have to be quick and painless.
Lawyers for South Carolina death row inmates are challenging the use of the electric chair and firing squad as cruel and unusual punishments, along with a law aimed at resuming lethal injections
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.