SC House approves bill making electric chair default execution method, adds firing squad option

SC House approves bill making electric chair default execution method, adds firing squad option
SC House approves bill making electric chair default execution method, adds firing squad option
By Adam Mintzer | May 5, 2021 at 8:25 PM EDT - Updated May 5 at 8:25 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - State lawmakers voted 66-43 Wednesday for a bill that will change the default method of execution from lethal injection to the electric chair. The legislation also includes an option for death row inmates to be executed by a firing squad.
After another procedural vote, the bill will go to Gov. Henry McMaster for approval.
“We are one step closer to providing victims’ families and loved ones with the justice and closure they are owed by law. I will sign this legislation as soon as it gets to my desk,” McMaster wrote in a tweet after the bill’s passage.

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