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South Carolina prison director says electric chair, firing squad and lethal injection ready to go
Freddie Owens has until Sept. 6 to decide how he wants to die.
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Louisiana advances a bill expanding death penalty methods in an effort to resume executions
Over the past couple of decades, executions in the United States have reduced — in part because of legal battles, a shortage of lethal injection drugs that is used as the primary method for capital punishment.
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South Carolina wants to restart executions with firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection
South Carolina’s death chamber, unused since May 2011, could suddenly get quite busy.
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South Carolina has lethal injection drug but justices want more info before restarting executions
South Carolina has not carried out an execution since 2011 after the state’s supply of lethal injection drugs expired and companies refused to sell them more unless the transaction could be kept secret.
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After unintended 12-year pause, South Carolina secures drug to resume lethal injections
On Tuesday, state Corrections Director Bryan Stirling revealed he bought a supply of pentobarbital and the state would begin using the sedative as the only drug in its executions.
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South Carolina still seeking a way to hold executions
Two years ago, the Legislature passed a law creating a firing squad and giving inmates a choice between dying by bullets to the heart or in the state’s electric chair.