This March 2019 file photo shows the state's electric chair in Columbia, South Carolina. Gov Henry McMaster on Friday signed a bill into law that forces death row inmates to choose between the electric chair or a firing squad'The families and loved ones of victims are owed closure and justice by law. Prosecutors said three inmates have exhausted all their normal appeals, but can't be killed because under the previous law, inmates who don't choose the state's 109-year-old electric chair automatically are scheduled to die by lethal injection. Nineteen inmates have died in the electric chair this century, and South Carolina is one of eight states that can still electrocute inmates, according to the center. "If you´re cool with the electric chair, you might as well be cool with burning at the stake," said Rep. Jonathon Hill, a Republican from Townville.

Source: Daily Mail May 17, 2021 16:21 UTC