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Rolling Stone S.C. Death Row Prisoners Will Soon Have to Choose Between Firing Squad or Electrocution A shortage of drugs for lethal injections has states looking for alternatives By AP Images South Carolina lawmakers voted to allow firing squads as an execution option when carrying out death penalty sentences. The state’s Republican governor, Henry McMaster, said he will sign the legislation into law. On Wednesday, the state’s House approved the bill requiring inmates sentenced to the death penalty to choose between firing squad or electrocution. In a 66-43 vote, only one Democrat voted in favor of the legislation and just seven Republicans voted against it. ....
Print this article The South Carolina House voted to approve firing squads as an execution method as the state struggles from a shortage of lethal injection drugs. “Those families of victims to these capital crimes are unable to get any closure because we are caught in this limbo stage where every potential appeal has been exhausted, and the legally imposed sentences cannot be carried out,” said Republican State Rep. Weston Newton of the legislation. The legislation, which passed by a 66-43 vote, will give inmates sentenced to death the choice between the firing squad or electric chair if lethal injection drugs are not available. South Carolina is one of only nine states that still use the electric chair for executions, while this legislation will make the state the fourth to allow firing squads. ....
Death By Firing Squad? One State Bringing Back Archaic Execution Method 05/06/21 AT 2:22 PM South Carolina could become the fourth state to legalize execution by firing squad for death row inmates. On Wednesday, the South Carolina House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow prisoners to choose whether they will die by electrocution or a firing squad if lethal injection drugs weren’t available. The legislation was approved in a 66-43 vote. The move comes amid issues of states nationwide facing difficulties obtaining the drugs necessary to carry out lethal injections on death row inmates. Currently, in South Carolina, inmates on death row have two options to die from either the electric chair or lethal injection. However, for those who choose lethal injection, the state cannot proceed with the execution. ....