South Carolina re-instates death by firing squad, schedules first execution

In March 2022, the South Carolina Department of Corrections announced that it would now offering execution by firing squad, for those incarcerated people who are eligible to be legally slaughtered at the hands of the state. The first such death penalty is scheduled for later this month:

The clerk of the State Supreme Court has set a April 29 execution date for Richard Bernard Moore, a 57-year-old man who has spent more than two decades on death row after he was convicted of killing convenience store clerk James Mahoney in Spartanburg.