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South Carolina’s approval of firing squad, electric chair called ‘chilling’ An execution chamber is seen at the state prison in Draper, Utah, in this 2010 file photo. South Carolina lawmakers passed a bill May 7, 2021, to add firing squads or the electric chair as death penalty options if lethal injection drugs are not available. (CNS photo/Trent Nelson, Salt Lake Tribune, Pool via Reuters) By Carol Zimmermann • Catholic News Service • Posted May 12, 2021 WASHINGTON (CNS) The passage of a bill by South Carolina lawmakers in early May to restart executions after 10 years and to add death by firing squad or electric chair as options if lethal injection drugs are not available is a “setback for South Carolina” and “stands in stark contrast to powerful efforts elsewhere to abolish the death penalty,” said a Catholic death penalty opponent.

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