Monday, 17 May 2021

Death row inmates must now choose between electric chair or firing squad in South Carolina

South Carolina was a state that made good use of its death penalty law, until it was forced to take a 10-year break when lethal injection drugs became unavailable. But Governor Henry McMaster came up with a backwards workaround, signing into law on Friday a new bill that forces inmates to make a choice when there isn't access to lethal injection (which there still isn't): death by electric chair or death by firing squad. — Read the rest



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