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South Carolina Delays Executions So Prisoners Can Choose Between Electrocution or Firing Squad

HeadlineJun 18, 2021

In South Carolina, two executions have been put on hold until the prisoners can be offered a choice of being killed by electrocution or a firing squad, as required by South Carolina’s recently passed capital punishment law.

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