South Carolina has given the greenlight to firing-squad executions
Highlights
- South Carolina has given the greenlight to firing-squad executions, a method codified into state law last year.
- The state Corrections Department said Friday that renovations have been completed on the death chamber in Columbia.
- The three shooters, all volunteers, will have rifles loaded with live ammunition, with their weapons trained on the inmate’s heart.
- South Carolina is one of eight states to still use the electric chair and one of four to allow a firing squad.
- There are 37 men on the state’s death row, and the state has not exhausted all methods to procure lethal injection drugs, officials said in June.
- In June, the South Carolina Supreme Court blocked the planned executions of two inmates by electrocution