South Carolina Votes To Bring Back Firing Squad For Executions

05/06/2021 Headline News
South Carolina Votes To Bring Back Firing Squad For Executions
South Carolina Votes To Bring Back Firing Squad For Executions (Image: WLTX/YouTube)

A bill to modify the default method of execution from lethal injection to the electric chair passed the state legislature 66-43 on Wednesday. The bill also provides the possibility of firing squad executions for death row inmates.

The bill will be sent to Gov. Henry McMaster for approval after another procedural vote.

“We are one step closer to providing victims’ families and loved ones with the justice and closure they are owed by law. I will sign this legislation as soon as it gets to my desk,” McMaster wrote in a tweet after the bill’s passage.

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This bill, lawmakers say, would put an end to South Carolina’s 10-year freeze on executions. Prisoners on death row are now sentenced to die by lethal injection unless they opt for the electric chair. However, the medication needed for lethal injection are in short supply across the country.

Source: WISTV

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