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March 18, 2022 9:37 PM ET
JACLYN DIAZ
South Carolina is now prepared to perform executions by firing squad, the state's Department of Corrections announced Friday.
The state said it spent $53,600 in renovations to the Capital Punishment Facility at Broad River Correctional Institution to ready it to perform these executions as required by a law passed last year.
The state's Department of Corrections said, "protocols have been written, and the department is ready to carry out an order of execution by firing squad if the inmate chooses this method."
This remains an extremely rare method of execution. Only Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah offer firing squad as an option to death row inmates. Since 1976, three people were executed by firing squad. ...
JACLYN DIAZ
South Carolina is now prepared to perform executions by firing squad, the state's Department of Corrections announced Friday.
The state said it spent $53,600 in renovations to the Capital Punishment Facility at Broad River Correctional Institution to ready it to perform these executions as required by a law passed last year.
The state's Department of Corrections said, "protocols have been written, and the department is ready to carry out an order of execution by firing squad if the inmate chooses this method."
This remains an extremely rare method of execution. Only Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah offer firing squad as an option to death row inmates. Since 1976, three people were executed by firing squad. ...