SC Supreme Court upholds legality of state's 3 execution methods

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : But back in September, Gov. Henry McMaster and the South Carolina Department of Corrections told the state's Supreme Court that a "shield law" passed by the General Assembly meant it could begin carrying out lethal injections again.
47% : The state has been able to secure pentobarbital for carrying out an execution by lethal injection under a one-drug protocol, the governor's office said.
46% : In a nearly 100-page opinion, the court upheld the firing squad, the electric chair and lethal injection.
45% : The shield law was necessary to protect the identities of companies that sold the state the drugs necessary for carrying out lethal injections.
41% : The opinion came in response to a legal challenge filed by four death-row inmates who sued the state when they faced having to decide between death by electrocution or by firing squad when South Carolina's supply of drugs for lethal injections had run out.

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