Three weeks into Russia’s lethal invasion of Ukraine, two years into a pandemic — surrounded, that is, by death on all sides — South Carolina quietly reserved the right to execute people by firing squad.
The Palmetto State joins Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah in offering inmates the option of being shot to death, citing a shortage of lethal injection drugs. The South Carolina Department of Corrections spent $53,600 to renovate its capital punishment facilities to make way for this new method of killing people.
Have you read how people are killed by firing squad? It’s medieval. They’re strapped to a chair with a hood over their heads. Executioners put targets on their hearts and then a three-person firing squad opens fire. Sandbags surround the chair to absorb the blood.
