- 21 Jun 2021 02:35
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Two US prisoners in the state of South Carolina who are going to be executed will be given the choice between the electric chair and a firing squad, after a ruling from the state court.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/de ... d=msedgntp
For those who do not know, a firing squad traditionally involves six people simultaneously shooting rifles aiming for the heart of the prisoner who is condemned to die, with one of the guns containing a blank so that none of the people carrying out the execution can know for sure that they were actually the one who carried out the killing.
The electric chair involves the prisoner being put in a chair and deadly electric current flowing through their body to stop their heart from beating. The last time the electric chair was used was in 2002, in the state of Georgia (it was used on a woman).
Each of the two prisoners being executed have been convicted of a double murder.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/de ... d=msedgntp
For those who do not know, a firing squad traditionally involves six people simultaneously shooting rifles aiming for the heart of the prisoner who is condemned to die, with one of the guns containing a blank so that none of the people carrying out the execution can know for sure that they were actually the one who carried out the killing.
The electric chair involves the prisoner being put in a chair and deadly electric current flowing through their body to stop their heart from beating. The last time the electric chair was used was in 2002, in the state of Georgia (it was used on a woman).
Each of the two prisoners being executed have been convicted of a double murder.