Publishing date: Mar 04, 2021 • March 4, 2021 • 3 minute read •
South Carolina Sen. Greg Hembree, R-Little River, speaks in favour of a bill that would add the firing squad to the electric chair and lethal injection as execution methods in the state on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, in Columbia, S.C. Photo by Jeffrey Collins /AP Photo
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Jeffrey Motts was pronounced dead on May 6, 2011, nearly 15 minutes after receiving a lethal injection for murdering his cellmate — the last inmate to die by lethal injection in South Carolina.
Nearly a decade later, state senators moved closer on Tuesday to ending a moratorium forced by a lack of access to lethal injection drugs by voting to add the firing squad as an execution method.