Posted on 09/06/2022 6:13:56 PM PDT by buckalfa
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WSPA) – A South Carolina court has ruled that the electric chair and firing squad are unconstitutional and the state cannot execute inmates by those methods.
In Tuesday’s ruling, Circuit Court Judge Jocelyn Newman ruled that both methods of execution are cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the South Carolina Constitution.
“In 2021, South Carolina turned back the clock and became the only state in the country in which a person may be forced into the electric chair if he refuses to elect how he will die,” Newman wrote in her ruling. “In doing so, the General Assembly ignored advances in scientific research and evolving standards of humanity and decency.”
The lawsuit was brought against the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC), SCDC Director Bryan Stirling, and Governor Henry McMaster by death row inmates Gary Terry, Freddie Owens, Richard Moore, and Brad Sigmon.
The court also ruled that a 2021 law which forced inmates to choose between the electric chair or firing squad was also unconstitutional.
The law was passed due to South Carolina’s inability to obtain the drugs necessary to perform lethal injections.
We reached out to the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office for comment but a spokesperson said they were unaware of the ruling.
Mother rapers,father stabbers,father rapers along with the rest of the Group W bench are delighted. Why bother with laws when there never can be consequences.
Depends who breaks the laws
If they even think you have messed up on your taxes,....
Just give them a few grams of fentanyl to put on their brownie.
Burning at the Stake ? Burying Alive ? Throwing off a tall building?
How about some modernization here, like a lethal dose of fentanyl? Better living through chemistry, for the rest of us.
French haircuts. Swish. Chunk!
A method of execution that was lawful among the several States when the Constitution was ratified (firing squad) cannot be unconstitutional.
The constitution specifically says that death must be only partially fatal.
They had electricity back when they wrote the Constitution?
Bring back the guillotine!
>> Throwing off a tall building
Defenestration, or, as Chico Marx might have said -
“Outta da window you go”.
The end result is the same regardless of the method. What a crock.
Gas chambers with nitrogen are the answer.
Gary Gilmore was a stone-cold killer. And for no reason. Or for may reasons.
Always respected him for choosing a Firing Squad over other ‘choices’ available to him at the time for his deserved execution.
‘The Executioner’s Song.’ Novel (Norman Mailer) or Movie/TV series with Tommy Lee Jones.
Yeah, they made him somewhat, ‘sympathetic’ even back in the day, but still a good True Crime story.
Just slip a mega dose af fentanyl into their cell. The inmate will kill their selfs.
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