South Carolina inmates want deaths delayed during appeal
by Meg Kinnard, The Associated Press
Posted Jun 15, 2021 5:55 pm EDT
Last Updated Jun 15, 2021 at 5:57 pm EDT
This March 2019 photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state s electric chair, in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina is trying to restart executions in the state by dusting off the electric chair after going nearly 10 years without putting a condemned inmate to death. A House Committee voted 14-7 on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, to make electrocution the default for an execution. (Kinard Lisbon/South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP)
Days before what could be South Carolina’s first execution in a decade, the two inmates scheduled to die this month under the state’s recently revamped capital punishment statute want an emergency order to stop their planned electrocutions while they appeal their cases.
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