South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed a bill requiring inmates on death row make the choice between death by firing squad or by electric chair after executions stalled in the state due to a shortage of the drug used in lethal injections.
“This weekend, I signed legislation into law that will allow the state to carry out a death sentence,” McMaster tweeted on Monday.
“The families and loved ones of victims are owed closure and justice by law. Now, we can provide it.”
The governor quietly signed the bill last Friday, about two days after the Senate voted to approve a few minor changes that the House made to it. Conservatives had pushed for the law after the state was unable to obtain lethal injection drugs for several years due to supplier reluctance, and under the previous law the state could not executive a prisoner who had selected lethal injection by different means if that option is unavailable.
Better than no choice at all!!!!
(snicker snicker)
They Don’t get to Pick The Govt DOES !!!!!! Whichever one they don’t want , choose that one !!!!
Yes, their Victims did Not get to Pick !!!!
Should be in ALL 50 states !!! Enforce the Penalty No More sitting on their asses on a Row !!!!
All sounds good as the old saying goes don’t do the crime, we are letting far to many life convictions be over turned too it is not fair to the jurors who voted for life, and the families life should mean life. And the firing squad may think some criminals in SC think twice before they murder someone. Our President and the left have let too many out of prisons that should never have walked out they will repeat their history and sentences show that so we now have those hard criminals out and the border with thousands of criminals in our country. I hope SC and other states follow the laws the way they were written, trial by jury and families deserve justice.
What’s wrong with a single bullet to the back of the head?
Better & Cheaper !!!! Or gas a bunch of them at the same time like Hitler did !!!! Big Deterrent !!!!!
Cheap and very effective!
Electric chair is Feared the most , so use that one !!!!!
Electric chair for Politicians for Treason , like Pence , Pelosi , Schumer. Schiff , Nadler , Watters , AOC +3 !!!!!!!!!
Amen!
Turn up the Current Gradually & Slow !!!!
No good Unless the Penalty is ENFORCED !!!! Which Most of the time it is NOT !!!!