It joins Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Utah
The change in South Carolina comes less than a year after Republican Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill into law that made the electric chair the primary means of execution in the state. Death row inmates could also choose to die
. The law came as states faced trouble executing death row inmates because of difficulties obtaining lethal injection drugs. There are no executions currently scheduled in South Carolina.In the protocols that were outlined Friday it was detailed the inmate would have a hood over their head and a small aim would be placed over the person’s heart. Members of the firing squad are all volunteer employees from the Department of Corrections and their rifles will all be loaded with live ammunition.
When lawmakers debated the amendment to the state law to allow executions to take place despite the shortage of lethal injection drugs, some argued firing squad amounted to the least painful method available. “The death penalty is going to stay the law here for a while,” Democratic state Sen. Dick Harpootlian said. “If we’re going to have it, it ought to be humane.” South Carolina last executed an inmate in 2011 and there are 37 men on the state’s death row.
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