South Carolina green lights firing-squad executions after death chamber renovations

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : In May the electric chair was made the primary method of execution, with the additional options to the inmate of firing squad or lethal injection if available.
47% : Reasoning that the death penalty would be state law for some time to come, he argued that it "ought to be humane".
44% : The method of execution was codified into state law last year to end a decade-long pause in carrying out death sentences because of the state's inability to procure lethal injection drugs.
43% : The death chamber now includes a metal chair, with restraints, in the corner of the room in which inmates will sit if they choose execution by firing squad.

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