The state of South Carolina has scheduled its first execution after prison officials indicated they are ready to conduct executions by firing squad.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina has scheduled its first execution after corrections officials finished updating the death chamber to prepare for executions by firing squad.
People are also reading… The state corrections agency said last month it had finished developing protocols for firing squad executions and completed $53,600 in renovations on the death chamber in Columbia, installing a metal chair with restraints that faces a wall with a rectangular opening 15 feet away.
Moore is one of 35 men on South Carolina's death row. He exhausted his federal appeals in 2020, and the state Supreme Court denied another appeal this week.The state last scheduled an execution for Moore in 2020, which was then delayed after prison officials said they couldn't obtain lethal injection drugs.
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