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| SC Cannot Carry Out Executions |
| By wtma.com |
| Published: 03/08/2016 |
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Even though South Carolina has the death penalty, and 44 men on death row, it has no way to carry out an execution right now, unless an inmate were to choose the electric chair. The state’s supply of the drugs used for lethal injections expired in 2013 and drug companies have been unwilling to sell the state more. “Once we tell them that we’re the Department of Corrections, they stop the conversations,” says Bryan Stirling, director of the SC Department of Corrections. State senators are working on a bill they hope will change that. The bill would shield pharmaceutical companies’ names from being released for selling lethal injection drugs to the state. “There’s not a guarantee that these companies would sell,” Stirling says. “No one has come to me and said, ‘If you have this shield law we will sell.’ We’ve asked the attorney general’s office for an opinion. They said that companies are included in the current law, but just out of an abundance of caution we want to go forward and go to the companies and say, ‘There’s a law on the books that will protect you.’” He says companies are worried about death penalty opponents protesting against the companies or harassing them. The department even looked into becoming its own compounding pharmacy to make the drugs but that was too expensive. Read More. |
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