The South Carolina Senate voted on March 2 in favor of a measure that added firing squads as an alternative execution method for the state’s death-row inmates.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers voted 32–11 to give the bill a second reading. The measure, which would allow the state to restart executions after nearly a decade, states that the firing squad method may be used only if the state can’t execute condemned inmates by way of lethal injection.
