State Conference of Branches, NAACP hold rally in response to SC death penalty law
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– At the State House, South Carolina State Conference of Branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held a rally over the weekend. Rally organizers tell us its in response to Governor Henry McMaster signed a bill into law that made the electric chair the state’s default method of execution and added the firing squad as an alternative method.
If the lethal injection is unavailable, the prisoners must select death by firing squad or be electrocution. The bill gives death row prisoners the right to choose which of the three methods is their preferred choice.
The NAACP says the death penalty violates the right to life which is the most basic of all human rights.
South Carolina’s highest court issued a temporary stay last week, blocking the state from carrying out what was set to be its first-ever firing squad execution on convict Richard Moore.
