South Carolina Greenlights Firing Squad Executions
18 March 2022
The South Carolina Department of Correction said the state is finally prepared to carry out firing-squad executions, a year after the method was codified into state law, The Associated Press reported.
Lawmakers signed on to the bill last summer, which also makes the electric chair the primary means of execution, after a decade-long pause in carrying out death sentences due to the state's inability to obtain lethal injection drugs.
A Wednesday press release by the department said renovations to the Capital Punishment Facility at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia that cost upwards of $53,000 allow it to carry out the provisions of the new law.
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