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| New legal opinion may allow South Carolina to resume lethal injections |
| By wyff4.com- Tim Waller |
| Published: 08/04/2015 |
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COLUMBIA, S.C. —A new legal opinion from the South Carolina Attorney General's Office may allow the state to move forward with lethal injections. The state hasn't executed a death row inmate since 2011, because it can't obtain a supply of lethal injection drugs. State Department of Corrections Director Bryan Stirling recently told WYFF News 4 Investigates that South Carolina doesn't have a shield law to protect the names of drug suppliers and, therefore, companies refuse to sell to the state. But the state Attorney General's Office says existing state law offers ample protection to drug companies. In an eight-page opinion, Assistant Attorney General Brendan McDonald wrote that law "prohibits the disclosure of the identities of individuals and companies" involved the process of making lethal injection drugs. Read More. |
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