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No death penalty has been carried out for ten years. The injections are no longer available, international media write. Governor Henry McMaster no longer wants to depend on that. “The families and loved ones of victims deserve justice,” he reports. “From now on we can offer that.”
Three prisoners are currently awaiting the death penalty. However, they can never be convicted. Under the previous law, it was regulated that anyone who does not actively opt for the electric chair automatically qualifies for injections. This is seen as a more humane method.
However, the injections have been on for years. Pharmaceutical companies have been refusing to supply products for the death penalty for about a decade.
Farm
The last execution in South Carolina took place in 2010. Three years later, the last syringes were past their expiration dates.
The old-fashioned electric chair is back in vogue in the US. Nineteen inmates have been killed in this way since the turn of the century. The shooting of death row inmates is completely outdated, and has only happened three times since 1977. Many states are investigating it. South Carolina is now the first to take the step, much to the ire of critics.
14 year old
Opponents often use the example of 14-year-old George Stinney, who was sentenced to the electric chair in South Carolina in 1944 and remains the youngest ever convicted American. His trial lasted one day. Decades later, in 2014, a judge ruled that Stinney was not the murderer of the two girls who died at the time.
George Stinney was unjustly sentenced to death in 1944.
Ⓒ State of South Carolina
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The death penalty is “racist, arbitrary and error-prone,” said Frank Knaack, director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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