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South Carolina Inmate’s Electric Chair Execution Is Halted Until a Firing Squad Is Available Allison Quinn © Provided by The Daily Beast South Carolina Department of Corrections Two days before South Carolina death row inmate Brad Sigmon was due to be put to death in the state’s 109-year-old electric chair, he won a rare reprieve from the state’s Supreme Court. Fellow prisoner Freddie Owens, who was set to be put to death a week later, was also spared at least temporarily as the court ruled Wednesday that the electrocution deaths would violate the “statutory right of inmates to elect the manner of their execution

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