South Carolina Supreme Court rules state death penalty including firing squad is legal | CNN

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Four prisoners are suing, but four more have also run out of appeals, although two of them face a competency hearing before they could be executed, according to Justice 360, a group that describes itself as fighting for the inmates and for fairness and transparency in death penalty and other major criminal cases.
52% : Lawyers for the inmates did tell the justices in February that lethal injection appears to be legal when it follows proper protocols, with information about the drug given to the condemned in a manner that matches what other states and the federal government use.
44% : Nearly all inmates have chosen lethal injection.
44% : The state's supplies of drugs for lethal injections expired and no pharmaceutical companies would sell more if they could be publicly identified.
43% : South Carolina used to carry out an average of three executions a year and had more than 60 inmates on death row when the last execution was carried out.
42% : The state said in its argument before the state Supreme Court in February that lethal injection, electrocution and firing squad all fit existing death penalty protocols.
41% : Since then, successful appeals and natural deaths have lowered the number to 32.Prosecutors have sent only three new prisoners to death row in the past 13 years.
38% : COLUMBIA, S.C. AP --The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state's death penalty, which now includes a firing squad as well as lethal injection and the electric chair, is legal.

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