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| SC Senators look to gas for execution |
| By myrtlebeachonline.com- Tim Smith |
| Published: 03/01/2016 |
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South Carolina executions have long been carried out by lethal injection, with the electric chair as an option if inmates so choose. But two senators are proposing the Senate consider allowing nitrogen gas as a third option, one adopted last year by Oklahoma, because of the lack of lethal injection drugs available for executions nationwide. This is not the gas formerly used in some states' gas chambers, which in some cases involved botched and gruesome executions. In theory nitrogen gas would slowly deprive an inmate of oxygen but not suffocate them. Sen. Mike Fair, a Greenville Republican and chairman of the Senate Corrections and Penology Committee, has paired with Sen. Brad Hutto, an Orangeburg Democrat and defense lawyer, to propose using the gas as an alternative to a bill that would shield the identities of companies that sell lethal injection drugs to the state's prison agency. Read More. |
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