The official green light has arrived South Carolina (Use) to the shoot as one of the methods of executing death row inmates. The shock measure was approved in May last year to overcome difficulties in the search the mixture of poisons needed for lethal injections, with many pharmaceutical companies banning their export to the US for humanitarian reasons. That’s why the executioner took action last time in South Carolina — which is ruled by the Republicans Henry McMaster – dates from 2011.
Previously, those convicted who could choose between the injection and the electric chair had opted for the former, effectively avoiding their execution. South Carolina prison authorities have announced the renovation of Columbia’s “death chamber.” have been completed and have notified Attorney General Alan Wilson gave the official go-ahead for shooting as a method of carrying out death sentences.
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According to CBS, there is now a metal chair in the room for the inmate who chooses the firing squad to sit on. About four meters from the site is a wall with a rectangular opening through it Three shooters will shoot the condemned. The Democratic senator was among the supporters of the shock measure Dick Harpootlian (in the picture), ex-prosecutor-turned-criminal-attorney, for whom shooting is “the least painful and most humane method there is”.
Of the 1977year in which the US Supreme Court Reinstated the death penalty, killing three people shootall in the state Utah. The last one doomed to end up in the electric chair instead was a woman, Lynda Lyon block, in 2002 in Alabama. The green light of room The provision comes a few weeks after the abolition of the death penalty Virginiawhich holds the record for executions in the United States after Texas.
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