The South Carolina Supreme Court has put another execution on hold, two days after temporarily blocking plans for a rare firing squad execution
Moore and Sigmon were scheduled to be the first people executed in South Carolina after a 2021 law made electrocution the state's default capital punishment method and also gave death row prisoners the option of execution by firing squad. Sigmon had not so far not chosen an execution method.
Lawyers for both men had sought stays, citing pending litigation in another court challenging the constitutionality of South Carolina’s execution methods. The state Supreme Court has provided little explanation on exactly why the executions have been delayed and for how long they will be delayed, with justices indicating in both cases that more detailed orders would be forthcoming. The court did clarify Friday that prison officials shouldn't move forward with the April 29 execution.brought by Moore, Sigmon and two other death row inmates who have mostly exhausted their appeals.
South Carolina’s last execution was in 2011. State officials have attributed the decadelong hiatus to an inability to secure lethal injection drugs after the state’s last batch expired in 2013. Efforts to contact manufacturers and compounding pharmacies have proved unfruitful, Corrections Department officials have repeatedly said.
The 2021 law that now requires prisoners to choose between the firing squad and the electric chair was intended to solve that problem.
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