First Alabama brought in nitrogen gas executions. Now South Carolina could bring back the electric chair

First, Alabama brought in nitrogen gas.

Now, South Carolina is looking to bring back the electric chair and firing squad.

With supply issues leaving states grappling to get their hands on lethal drugs, some are turning their attentions to alternative methods to execute the hundreds of prisoners currently sitting on death row.

South Carolina has not executed a death row inmate in 13 years because these drugs, used for lethal injections, have become increasingly difficult to find. Pharmaceutical companies and drug manufacturers do not want to sell them to states unless they can remain anonymous, The Associated Press reported.

With issues around the use of lethal injections playing out, the state of South Carolina brought the use of the of electric chair and