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In prison death chambers, the state is willing to quite literally reenact a practice from some of the country’s bloodiest history, writes Mark M. Smith. By Mark M. Smith University of South Carolina Americans have an appetite for reenacting the past, especially the battles of the U.S. Ci
South Carolina decided to allow its inmates on death row the option of execution by firing squad, a method unused since the Civil War.
South Carolina has had trouble securing enough lethal injection drugs for executions. So it has turned to an old form of killing: the firing squad, last used in the Civil War.
The clitoris contains thousands more touch-detecting nerve fibers than once thought.