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Lethal injection, electric chair, firing squad or even nitrogen gas: the execution methods still used in the world today as one death row inmate in the US faces an impossible choice
2 months, 1 week ago

Lethal injection, electric chair, firing squad or even nitrogen gas: the execution methods still used in the world today as one death row inmate in the US faces an impossible choice

Daily Mail  

After languishing on Death Row for almost 25 years, convicted murderer Richard Moore now faces an agonising decision – choosing how he will be executed. Richard Moore, 59, a South Carolina Death Row inmate, has the choice to either die by the firing squad, electric chair or lethal injection Moore has now been on South Carolina's Death Row for 23 …

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South Carolina Supreme Court rules state death penalty including firing squad is legal
4 months, 3 weeks ago

South Carolina Supreme Court rules state death penalty including firing squad is legal

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina can execute death row inmates by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair, the state’s high court ruled Wednesday, opening the door to restart executions after more than a decade. South Carolina allowing inmates to choose from the three execution methods is far from an effort to inflict pain but a sincere attempt at …

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South Carolina Supreme Court rules state death penalty including firing squad is legal
4 months, 3 weeks ago

South Carolina Supreme Court rules state death penalty including firing squad is legal

CNN  

COLUMBIA, S.C. AP — The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state’s death penalty, which now includes a firing squad as well as lethal injection and the electric chair, is legal. The Supreme Court allowed the inmates to add arguments that the shield law was too secret by not releasing the potency, purity and stabilization of lethal injection …

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South Carolina wants to restart executions by firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection
10 months, 2 weeks ago

South Carolina wants to restart executions by firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection

Hindustan Times  

Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that the state's old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments. If the Supreme Court justices allow executions to restart and any additional appeals are unsuccessful, South Carolina's death chamber, unused since May 2011, …

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South Carolina wants to restart executions with firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection
10 months, 2 weeks ago

South Carolina wants to restart executions with firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the South Carolina Supreme Court on Tuesday that the state’s old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments. And they got a lawyer for the inmates to say if the Supreme Court bans electrocution and the firing squad and …

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Bryan Kohberger updates: Idaho murders suspect may face firing squad as judge compares case to Lori Vallow
1 year, 5 months ago

Bryan Kohberger updates: Idaho murders suspect may face firing squad as judge compares case to Lori Vallow

The Independent  

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Grandfather Lori Vallow's children wants her husband Chad Daybell to face a FIRING SQUAD
1 year, 8 months ago

Grandfather Lori Vallow's children wants her husband Chad Daybell to face a FIRING SQUAD

Daily Mail  

The grandfather of one of cult mom Lori Vallow's children says he wants her husband, Chad Daybell, to face a firing squad if he is convicted of murder in Idaho. Lori Vallow in a courtroom in Hawaii on February 26, 2020, after her arrest Chad Daybell sits in a courtroom alongside his attorney on August 4, 2020 Vallow is accused …

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Idaho governor signs firing squad execution bill into law
1 year, 8 months ago

Idaho governor signs firing squad execution bill into law

Associated Press  

BOISE, Idaho — Republican Gov. Brad Little signed a bill allowing execution by firing squad, making Idaho the latest state to turn to older methods of capital punishment amid a nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs. Only Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina have laws allowing firing squads if other execution methods are unavailable, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. …

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Why executions by firing squad may be coming back in the US
1 year, 8 months ago

Why executions by firing squad may be coming back in the US

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — The image of gunmen in a row firing in unison at a condemned prisoner may conjure up a bygone, less enlightened era. Some, including a few Supreme Court justices, view firing squads as less cruel than lethal injections, despite the violence involved in riddling bodies with bullets. Under Idaho’s bill, firing squads would be used only if executioners …

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Death by Bullet: Why does Idaho want to bring back firing squads for executing prisoners?
1 year, 9 months ago

Death by Bullet: Why does Idaho want to bring back firing squads for executing prisoners?

Firstpost  

Idaho lawmakers have passed a bill that would allow firing squads to execute inmates on death row. According to Death Penalty Information Center, seven of the 20 lethal injection execution attempts in 2022 were botched, marked by “visibly problematic” procedures, reported Los Angeles Times. So far, Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and South Carolina allow firing squads if an alternative execution method …

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Idaho bill would bring back execution by firing squad
1 year, 10 months ago

Idaho bill would bring back execution by firing squad

Associated Press  

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho could bring back firing squads as a method of execution under legislation introduced by a panel of lawmakers Wednesday. The state eliminated its never-used firing squad option in 2009, but has been unable to secure the drugs needed for lethal injection executions. Public support and use of the death penalty has declined for the past two …

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Electric chair, firing squad’s legality at S. Carolina court
1 year, 11 months ago

Electric chair, firing squad’s legality at S. Carolina court

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s highest court heard arguments Thursday on whether a newly organized firing squad or the old electric chair are legal ways to execute inmates in the state, which has been unable to obtain drugs for lethal injections. The state appealed and the South Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments for nearly three hours Thursday over whether the …

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Judge rules Oklahoma’s lethal injection method is constitutional following a legal challenge from dozens of death row prisoners
2 years, 6 months ago

Judge rules Oklahoma’s lethal injection method is constitutional following a legal challenge from dozens of death row prisoners

CNN  

CNN — Four days after a federal court ruled against death row inmates arguing Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol is cruel and unusual, the state’s attorney general asked for more than two dozen executions to be scheduled. The lawsuit, brought on behalf of 28 death row prisoners, named officials with multiple Oklahoma corrections agencies and claimed the injection method causes “constitutionally …

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Judge rules Oklahoma’s lethal injection method is constitutional following a legal challenge from dozens of death row prisoners
2 years, 6 months ago

Judge rules Oklahoma’s lethal injection method is constitutional following a legal challenge from dozens of death row prisoners

CNN  

CNN — Oklahoma’s use of a three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday following a lawsuit from nearly 30 people on death row challenging the protocol. The suit, brought on behalf of 28 death row prisoners, named officials with multiple Oklahoma corrections agencies and claimed the state’s lethal injection method violates the Eighth Amendment because it …

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2nd SC execution on hold after court halts firing squad plan
2 years, 8 months ago

2nd SC execution on hold after court halts firing squad plan

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s highest court, two days after pausing plans for a rare firing squad execution, announced Friday that it was putting another execution on hold as inmates challenge the constitutionality of the state’s capital punishment methods. The order comes after the court this week temporarily blocked the state from executing Richard Bernard Moore, whose scheduled April 29 …

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First death row inmate to face execution in South Carolina in a decade chooses to die by firing squad
2 years, 8 months ago

First death row inmate to face execution in South Carolina in a decade chooses to die by firing squad

The Independent  

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Inmate asks judges to halt firing squad or electrocution
2 years, 8 months ago

Inmate asks judges to halt firing squad or electrocution

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina inmate set to die either by a firing squad or in the electric chair later this month is asking the state Supreme Court to halt his execution until judges can determine if either method is cruel and unusual punishment. Moore’s lawyers said judges need to review South Carolina’s new firing squad rules to see …

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Richard Bernard Moore: South Carolina man sentenced to execution by electric chair or firing squad
2 years, 8 months ago

Richard Bernard Moore: South Carolina man sentenced to execution by electric chair or firing squad

The Independent  

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S. Carolina schedules 1st execution with firing squad ready
2 years, 8 months ago

S. Carolina schedules 1st execution with firing squad ready

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina has scheduled its first execution after corrections officials finished updating the death chamber to prepare for executions by firing squad. Moore could face a choice between the electric chair and the firing squad, two options available to death row prisoners after legislators altered the state’s capital punishment law last year in an effort to work …

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2 SC death row inmates ask court not to schedule executions
2 years, 9 months ago

2 SC death row inmates ask court not to schedule executions

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Lawyers for two men on South Carolina’s death row have asked the state’s Supreme Court to hold off on setting execution dates while they challenge a new law allowing executions by firing squad. Prisons officials began preparing for a firing squad after legislators altered the state’s capital punishment law in an effort to work around a decade-long …

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South Carolina Now Ready To Carry Out Executions By Firing Squad
2 years, 9 months ago

South Carolina Now Ready To Carry Out Executions By Firing Squad

Huff Post  

South Carolina is now prepared to carry out executions by firing squad, the Department of Corrections said in a chilling statement Friday. After a law was passed last year allowing firing squads, the state spent $53,000 to renovate the capital punishment facility at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia “to include the capacity to perform an execution by firing squad,” …

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Oklahoma death row inmate who requested firing squad executed by lethal injection
2 years, 10 months ago

Oklahoma death row inmate who requested firing squad executed by lethal injection

CNN  

CNN — An Oklahoma death row inmate who had requested execution by firing squad was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, according to the state Department of Corrections. Grant and another death row inmate, Gilbert Postelle, had asked a federal judge to intervene and allow their executions by firing squad rather than lethal injection. Grant was sentenced to death for …

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Oklahoma death row inmates seek firing squad as alternative
2 years, 11 months ago

Oklahoma death row inmates seek firing squad as alternative

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Two Oklahoma death row inmates facing executions in the coming months offered firing squad as a less problematic alternative to the state’s three-drug lethal injection, one of their attorneys told a federal judge on Monday. The two inmates — Donald Grant and Gilbert Postelle — want U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot to grant them a temporary injunction …

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Judge says Oklahoma can proceed with 5 lethal injections
3 years, 1 month ago

Judge says Oklahoma can proceed with 5 lethal injections

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled Monday the state can move forward with scheduled lethal injections for five death row inmates, including Julius Jones, whose case has drawn international attention and who is scheduled to die on Nov. 28. Judge Stephen Friot denied a motion for a preliminary injunction sought by the five inmates, paving the way …

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