South Carolina court weighs pausing new death penalty law

The Associated Press

The lawsuit was filed shortly after Gov. Henry McMaster signed into law a bill aimed at restarting executions after an involuntary 10-year pause, when the state ran out of lethal injection drugs. The new law compels the condemned to choose to be electrocuted or shot if lethal injection drugs are not available. Prior to the law, prisoners could choose between lethal injection or electrocution.

The South Carolina Supreme Court set Sigmon’s execution for June 18 after prison officials indicated the state’s electric chair was ready for use. Owens is slated to die a week later, on June 25. “South Carolina is not going back to a method of execution that is intended to cause pain,” said Daniel Plyler, a lawyer representing the corrections agency.

Three men, including Owens and Sigmon, have run out of traditional appeals in recent months, leading the court to schedule their execution dates earlier this year, before the passage of the new law. Those dates were delayed after the corrections agency acknowledged it could not procure lethal injection drugs to carry out the executions.

South Carolina is one of eight states to still use the electric chair and four to allow a firing squad, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Prison officials have been researching how firing squads carry out executions elsewhere, but have not indicated a timeline for when the firing squad will be up and running.

Then don't let them choose! Firing Squad! Quicker Faster Cheaper!

I bought my mother in law a chair but she refused to plug it in.

Third option watching the View ?

This is horrible, even for true criminals, not to mention the ones that are actually innocent.

Force the death row prisoners to spend a day with Nikki Haley . . . now THAT is cruelty.

I love the idea of making the inmates pick the way they are going to be executed..that's a fantastic idea

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