{"id":478094,"date":"2021-05-06T12:05:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T16:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=478094"},"modified":"2021-05-06T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T16:05:59","slug":"south-carolina-state-house-votes-to-add-firing-squad-to-execution-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-carolina-state-house-votes-to-add-firing-squad-to-execution-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina State House Votes To Add Firing Squad To Execution Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsouth-carolina-state-house-votes-to-add-firing-squad-to-execution-methods%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=478094&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gun-2-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The South Carolina State House on Wednesday voted to add the firing squad to the list of the state\u2019s execution methods.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, which was approved by a 66-43 vote, will mandate that death-row inmates select either firing squad or electrocution in the event that lethal injection drugs are not available at the time of their scheduled execution. The Senate approved much the same bill in March by a vote of 32-11, which means the bill will likely soon go to Republican Governor Henry McMaster, who has already said he plans to sign it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are one step closer to providing victims\u2019 families and loved ones with the justice and closure they are owed by law,\u201d McMaster tweeted Wednesday after the vote. \u201cI will sign this legislation as soon as it gets to my desk.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.4307692307692\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The S.C House has given second reading to a bill that will restore the state\u2019s ability to carry out the death penalty.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UXdMWpCu4D\">https:\/\/t.co\/UXdMWpCu4D<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gov. Henry McMaster (@henrymcmaster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/henrymcmaster\/status\/1390077317444157445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When signed into law, South Carolina will become the fourth to allow a firing squad.<\/p>\n<p>Like other states with capital punishment, South Carolina has struggled to secure lethal injection drugs. One Republican said that\u2019s not fair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose families of victims to these capital crimes are unable to get any closure because we are caught in this limbo stage where every potential appeal has been exhausted and the legally imposed sentences cannot be carried out,\u201d said state Rep. Weston Newton.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of executions, prosecutors have sought guilty pleas \u201cwith guaranteed life sentences over death penalty trials, have cut the state\u2019s death row population nearly in half \u2014 from 60 to 37 inmates \u2014 since the last execution was carried out in 2011,\u201d The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/south-carolina-executions-a6bbef9c9a85b248f5bc7c0c57ad0cbe\">reported<\/a>. \u201cFrom 2000 to 2010, the state averaged just under two executions a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before the vote, one state Democrat said lawmakers will have blood on their hands if they support the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree living, breathing human beings with a heartbeat that this bill is aimed at killing,\u201d said state Rep. Justin Bamberg. \u201cIf you push the green button at the end of the day and vote to pass this bill out of this body, you may as well be throwing the switch yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomehow, here today we find ourselves in the position in this body to once again give a voice to that belief system that in this state, we\u2019re a state about life, while simultaneously taking up a bill that\u2019s not about life, that doesn\u2019t cater to the \u2018belief system\u2019 in our state that its a state of life,\u201d Bamberg said. \u201cThis is about death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Said the AP:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"21\">\n<p><em>South Carolina first began using the electric chair in 1912 after taking over the death penalty from individual counties, which usually hanged prisoners. The other three states that allow a firing squad are Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Three inmates, all in Utah, have been killed by firing squad since the U.S. reinstated the death penalty in 1977. Nineteen inmates have died in the electric chair this century.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>South Carolina can\u2019t put anyone to death now because its supply of lethal-injection drugs expired and it has not been able to buy any more. Currently, inmates can choose between the electric chair and lethal injection. Since the drugs are not available, they choose injection.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Carolina State House on Wednesday voted to add the firing squad to the list of the state\u2019s execution methods.The legislation, which was approved by a 66-43 vote, will &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277453,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gun-2-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"South Carolina State House Votes To Add Firing Squad To Execution Methods","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gun-2-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"South Carolina State House Votes To Add Firing Squad To Execution Methods","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}