South Carolina has not carried out an execution since 2011.
FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left. The South Carolina Supreme Court appears to be pausing executions until they can hear arguments in February 2024 over whether a law in constitutional that allows the state to keep secret the suppliers of lethal injection drugs and the procedure used to kill inmates.
The state passed a shield law earlier this year to hide the identities of drug companies, the names of anyone helping with an execution and the exact procedure followed. In September, prison officials announced they now have the sedative pentobarbital and changed the method of execution from using three drugs to just one.
South Carolina used to carry out an average of three executions a year. But just 33 inmates are awaiting a death sentence and only three have been sent to death row since the last execution in 2011 as prosecutors face rising costs and more vigorous defenses, choosing to accept guilty pleas and life in prison without parole.
South Carolina's current execution law requires inmates to be sent to the electric chair unless they choose a different method.
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