South Carolina's first execution in more than 13 years set for next month

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Owens is expected to have the choice of being executed by lethal injection, electrocution or the new option of a firing squad.
46% : South Carolina previously used a mixture of three drugs, but will now use one drug, the sedative pentobarbital, for lethal injections in a protocol similar to that of the federal government.
39% : "The lack of transparency about the source of the execution drugs, how they were obtained and whether [they] can bring about as painless a death as possible is still of grave concern to the lawyers that represent persons on death row," attorney John Blume told The Associated Press.
36% : About 20 inmates have been removed from death row and received different prison sentences after successful appeals, while others have died of natural causes.

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