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Death Row inmates to be given firing squad 'choice' after court ruling
writes The Times.Now South Carolina has had to draft in a firing squad to give men waiting on death row a choice.Brad Sigmon, 63, convicted of two murders in 2002, was supposed to have been executed this week and Freddie Owens, 43, convicted of murdering a convenience store worker in 1997 and confessed to the killing of a fellow inmate at his sentencing hearing, was due to die next week.Chrysti Shain, a spokeswoman for the state's department of corrections, said some states introduced laws to shield the identity of lethal drug suppliers, but South Carolina had failed to."Our last execution was in 2011," she said.
