With Lethal Injections Harder To Come By, Some States Are Turning To Firing Squads
Unable to obtain lethal injection drugs, some states have turned to outmoded alternatives to execute prisoners on death row.
South Carolina's Republican governor signed a bill into law last week that sounds like it's from a different century: death row inmates must choose whether to be executed by the electric chair or a firing squad, if lethal injection drugs are unavailable.
Lethal injection is the preferred method of execution in states that have the death penalty. But in recent years they've have had difficulty obtaining lethal injection drugs, as pharmaceutical companies blocked their drugs from being used in executions.
In South Carolina, the state's supply of lethal injection drugs expired while death
