South Carolina
Electric chair tested and firing squad prepared, South Carolina prison director says
South Carolina's prisons director said the state is ready to execute an inmate next month by either electrocution, firing squad or lethal injection.
South Carolina's prisons director said Wednesday the state is ready to carry out an execution next month that would mark its first in more than 13 years. Corrections Director Bryan Stirling said South Carolina's supply of a common lethal injection dr... [6715 chars]