South Carolina Brings Back Electric Chair

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) “signed a bill into law officially bringing back the electric chair and introducing the firing squad to perform executions of death row inmates,” the Columbia State reports.

“Conservative lawmakers pushed the execution legislation forward this year in response to a years-long nationwide reluctance on the part of drug companies to sell their products to states looking to use them in executions. As a result, South Carolina has not been able to obtain the drugs to administer a lethal injection in years.”