Death Row Prisoners Challenge Constitutionality of Electrocution and Firing Squad in South Carolina’s Supreme Court

I contributed this piece to Amicus ALJ’s February newsletter, and am sharing the link here.

‘Four prisoners on South Carolina’s death row have brought a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s execution methods of electrocution and firing squad. On February 6th, 2024, the state’s Supreme Court heard arguments in Owens v. Stirling that these methods of execution violated South Carolina’s Constitution, which prohibits punishments which are ‘cruel’, ‘unusual’, or ‘corporal’…’ Read on

Image Credit: South Carolina State constitution, public domain from Wikimedia Commons