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A South Carolina judge on Tuesday refused to block two executions set for later this month as she considers a lawsuit over the state’s new capital punishment law, which effectively forces condemned prisoners to choose to die by either the electric chair or firing squad. Greenville County man on death row has execution date set; sues over firing squad law Sign up for our Newsletters State Circuit Judge Jocelyn Newman issued the decision to let.