With Lethal Injections Harder To Come By, Some States Are Turning To Firing Squads
With Lethal Injections Harder To Come By, Some States Are Turning To Firing Squads Enlarge this image toggle caption Kinard Lisbon/South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP Kinard Lisbon/South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP South Carolina's Republican governor signed a bill into law last week that sounds like it's from a different century: Death row inmates must choose whether to be executed by the electric chair or a firing squad if lethal injection drugs are unavailable. In South Carolina, the state's supply of lethal injection drugs expired while death row inmates' cases went through appeals. When states can't get lethal drugs Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, says that states have reacted to their inability to get the drugs in various ways. Sponsor Message The American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina called the state's execution legislation "modern-day lynching."
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