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South Carolina is now ready to start carrying out executions by firing squad the states Department of Corrections said. South Carolina is now is now able to carry out executions by firing squad in addition to electrocution and injection as required by a recently passed law.

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AP South Carolina has scheduled its first execution after corrections officials finished updating the death chamber to prepare for executions by firing squad.

. Henry McMaster R signed legislation into law on May 14 2021 that makes the electric chair the primary means of execution but allows inmates to choose death by lethal injection or by firing squad if the methods are available the SCDC said in a release. Breitbart News noted that a lack of lethal injection drug. South Carolina is now prepared to perform executions by firing squad the states Department of Corrections announced Friday.

Three executions all in Utah have been carried out by firing squad since 1976 according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Ronnie Lee Gardner a 49-year-old convicted killer was the last. Death row inmate executed by Utah firing squad Ed Pilkington describes the execution of convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner by firing squad.

Lethal injection would also be an option if the drugs were available to carry out the procedure. South Carolina has given the greenlight to firing-squad. In order to be able to carry out the executions the state spent 53600.

The firing squad was put in place as an alternative to the electric chair. The state said it. The clerk of the State Supreme Court has set a April 29 execution date for Richard Bernard Moore a 57-year-old man who has spent more than two decades on death row after he.

Execution by firing squad in the past sometimes called fusillading from the French fusil rifle is a method of capital punishment particularly common in the military and in times of warSome reasons for its use are that firearms are usually readily available and a gunshot to a vital organ such as the brain or heart most often will kill relatively quickly. In this April 16 2018 photo a guard tower stands above the Lee Correctional Institution a maximum security prison in Bishopville SC. He was the first American in 14 years to be put to.

Above a view of the death chamber at the. The announcement comes after South Carolina Gov.

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