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…alternative methods will be found.\u00a0 Since, as the Court held in Glossip, “the death penalty is constitutional,” and since a majority of our citizens continue to support it, and since gruesome murders continue to be committed that warrant it, we will continue to administer it.\u00a0 This is true despite false claims that “the death penalty is dying.”\u00a0 Instead, over the last five years, we have had an average of one execution every 17 days, and, after years of decline (as the murder rate declined), support for capital punishment has held stable at 55% over that time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The latest news is from South Carolina, which is bringing back firing squads.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the start of the story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

South Carolina is poised to bring back firing squads to its list of execution methods amid a shortage of drugs to carry out lethal injections in an effort to resume capital punishment after a decade.<\/p>\n

The state House voted 66-43 Wednesday on legislation that would allow death row inmates to choose between being shot or electrocuted if lethal injection drugs aren’t available. The state is one of nine that still use the electric chair and will become the fourth to use firing squads.<\/p>\n

The state Senate approved the bill in March. After another routine vote in the House, the bill will head to the desk of Republican Gov. Henry McMaster, who said he will sign it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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…alternative methods will be found.\u00a0 Since, as the Court held in Glossip, “the death penalty is constitutional,” and since a majority of our citizens continue to support it, and since gruesome murders continue to be committed that warrant it, we will continue to administer it.\u00a0 This is true despite false claims that “the death penalty is dying.”\u00a0 Instead, over the last five years, we have had an average of one execution every 17 days, and, after years of decline (as the murder rate declined), support for capital punishment has held stable at 55% over that time. 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