SC Supreme Court: Electric chair, firing squad do not violate the state's constitution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : In doing so, the General Assembly ignored advances in scientific research and evolving standards of humanity and decency," Newman wrote.
34% : McMaster signed the legislation making electrocution the default method after the state had been unable to obtain the drugs necessary for lethal injection for over a decade after pharmaceutical companies stopped selling their products to be used in executions.
29% : Two years after Gov. Henry McMaster signed legislation making the default method of execution the electric chair, with a firing squad and lethal injection as an alternative "if it is available at the time," the conservative-majority high court reversed a lower court ruling the two execution methods unconstitutional.

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