Lawmakers in South Carolina are contemplating restarting executions after nearly 13 years and are looking into sending prisoners to death in an electric chair or with shooting by a firing squad.
He stated: "The mechanism used to kill prisoners is the wrong debate ... Dr. Zivot thinks that the only reason why they ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate who has spent more than half his life on death row has chosen to die by lethal injection instead of by electric chair or firing squad later this month.
Bowman is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. on Friday at a Columbia, South Carolina prison for the killing of 21-year-old Kandee Martin.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled ...
All three have chosen lethal injection over the electric chair or a firing squad ... for “unnecessary pain and suffering.” State prison officials, who have said South Carolina's procedures ...