South Carolina Gives Death Row Inmates Firing Squad Option as Execution Method

The new death row at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, S.C., on July 11, 2019. South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP

The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) said on Friday that death row inmates in the state are now able to pick execution by firing squad as a death sentence option.

Officials have completed renovating the capital punishment facility at Broad River Correctional Institution in Colombia to “include the capacity to perform an execution by firing squad,” the SCDC said in a release. Corrections spent $53,600 on the renovations.