A South Carolina judge this week ruled that authorizing the execution of inmates by firing squad or the electric chair is unconstitutional. In a 39-page opinion issued Tuesday, 5th Judicial Circuit Court Judge Jocelyn Newman said South Carolina "turned back the clock and became the only state in the country in which a person may be forced into the electric chair if he refuses to elect how he will die." "In doing so, the General Assembly ignored advances in scientific research and evolving standards of humanity and decency," Newman wrote, arguing that executing death row inmates by firing squad or electric chair violates the state's constitution protecting against cruel, corporal and u
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