COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina's highest court will hear arguments Thursday on whether a newly organized firing squad or the old electric chair are legal ways to execute inmates in the state, which has been unable to obtain drugs for lethal injections.
The death penalty remains under near constant scrutiny in the United States. Tennessee issued a report last week saying the state has not followed the new rules it made for lethal injections in 2018, killing inmates with drugs that hadn't been properly tested. Denver 7+ Colorado News Latest Headlines | January 5, 6am South Carolina hasn't executed a prisoner in nearly 12 years. Its supply of drugs for lethal injections has expired and pharmaceutical companies refuse to sell them more, knowing they will be used to kill someone.
A death row inmate who did not want to be electrocuted could choose between the newly created firing squad or lethal injection if it were available. Attorneys for the state countered with their own experts who said death by firing squad or the electric chair would be instantaneous and the condemned would feel no pain.
Meh, just bring back Scaphism execution
I’m assuming that most, if not all people on death row have been found guilty of murder. Just a thought…. Why not kill them in the same manner they killed their victim(s) 🤷♂️. Seems reasonable to me.
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