South Carolina Ready To Execute People With Firing Squads Now

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : If the death penalty is such a wonderful thing, then why would any of that be necessary?
50% : The only reason we have the death penalty in a world where wrongful convictions exist is because it makes people feel good.
47% : "The death penalty is going to stay the law here for a while," Harpootlian said.
47% : According to officials, the death chamber now also includes a metal chair, with restraints, in the corner of the room in which inmates will sit if they choose execution by firing squad.
45% : If the death penalty were an unequivocal moral good, there would be no problem with one person walking up to a prisoner and just shooting them in the head -- which, arguably, might be the more "humane" option.
41% : Other states, desperate to continue this brutality, have turned to other methods of execution.
38% : Firing squads, by their very nature, are an admission that the death penalty is wrong.
29% : In 2011, the European Union took a stand against the death penalty in the United States by banning pharmaceutical companies from importing several drugs meant to be used for lethal injections.

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