In prison death chambers, the state is willing to quite literally reenact a practice from some of the country’s bloodiest history, writes Mark M. Smith.
By Mark M. Smith
University of South Carolina
Americans have an appetite for reenacting the past, especially the battles of the U.S. Ci
South Carolina has had trouble securing enough lethal injection drugs for executions. So it has turned to an old form of killing: the firing squad, last used in the Civil War.