His last chance to avoid death was for Republican South Carolina Gov. South Carolina first tried to add the firing squad to restart executions after its supply of lethal injection drugs expired and no company was willing to publicly sell them more. South Carolina law allows condemned people to choose lethal injection, the new firing squad or the electric chair built in 1912. South Carolina restarts the death penaltySouth Carolina’s last execution was in May 2011. South Carolina has put 43 people to death since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976.

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