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The state of South Carolina approved the inclusion of prisoners as a method of execution condemned to death the firing squad , although the lethal injection will remain the first choice.
The bill approved by the legislature aims to find lethal injection due to the shortage of these drugs due to the refusal of pharmaceutical companies to use them in executions.
The document has yet to be ratified by the governor , Republican Henry McMaster, who has already announced his support to the project.
Currently, prisoners sentenced to death in South Carolina can choose between the electric chair or a lethal injection to be executed, so they opt for this last option since the state is out of stock.
From now on, in case the state does not have lethal drugs available, the inmate will have the option of choosing how to be executed between the electric chair and the shooting.
South Carolina will thus become the fourth state in the country to include shooting as an option, after Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah.
The fact that the project is approved does not imply that the executions in South Carolina will be reactivated soon, since the text will probably face lawsuits that could delay its entry into force several years.
The last execution in South Carolina was a decade ago, the May 6, 2011 . South Carolina currently has about 40 prisoners sentenced to death, of which three have exhausted all their legal remedies.
Of the 1, 532 executions occurred in States United since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, only 3 have been by firing squad, all of them in Utah and the last one in 2010.
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