San Francisco Chronicle

Firing squad executions OKd

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The South Carolina House voted Wednesday to add a firing squad to the state’s execution methods amid a lack of lethalinje­ction drugs — a measure meant to jumpstart executions in a state that once had one of the busiest death chambers in the nation

. The bill requires condemned inmates to choose either being shot or electrocut­ed if lethal injection drugs aren’t available. The state is one of only nine to still use the electric chair and will become only the fourth to allow a firing squad. The other three states that allow a firing squad are Mississipp­i, Oklahoma and Utah, according to the Death Penalty Informatio­n Center.

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