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May 7, 2021 07:53 pm GMT
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2021/05/07/south-carolina-legislators-approve-execution-by-firing-squad.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=south-c
South Carolina legislators approve execution by firing squad
Mirroring an earlier Senate bill, legislators in the South Carolina House today voted to approve the firing squad and the electric chair as methods of execution there and Gov. Henry McMaster has pledged to sign the bill into law. It's been 10 years since South Carolina executed anyone, reportedly because pharmaceutical companies refuse to sell it the drugs required for the deadly chemical cocktails used to kill the condemned. — Read the rest
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