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South Carolina Legislature Votes to Bring Back Electric Chair, Firing Squads

HeadlineMay 06, 2021

South Carolina lawmakers have approved a bill requiring death row prisoners to choose whether they will be electrocuted or shot to death, if lethal injection drugs are not available. Republican Governor Henry McMaster has promised to sign the bill, making South Carolina the fourth state to allow executions by firing squad.

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