Final approval came Friday after the state Department of Corrections said renovations had been completed on a new death chamber where the executions can take place in the state capital of Columbia.
The electric chair is the state’s primary method of execution, but a May 2021 law now allows prisoners to choose to die by lethal injection or firing squad, the state said in aThe new death row at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, S.C is seen in an undated photo.The new chamber – which cost $53,600 to build — consists of a metal chair with restraints that faces a wall. The wall has a rectangular opening where three shooters can carry out the sentence.
Oklahoma, Mississippi, and Utah also allow death by firing squad. Only three prisoners in the United States have been executed using the method since 1976, all in Utah, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The electric chair is the state’s primary method of execution, but prisoners can also choose to die by lethal injection or firing squad.South Carolina last executed a prisoner in 2011 and currently has 35 inmates on death row.
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