The South Carolina Supreme Court is demanding more information on death penalty cases statewide. It could take up to four months for state justices to decide on a dealth penaty method.
ordered a lower court to collect more information from the Department of Corrections regarding the state agency's attempts to acquire lethal injection drugs.organized firing squadThe order reversed a previous ruling that denied the plaintiffs’ request for such information from the circuit court, which Chief Justice Donald Beatty wrote"abused its discretion."
"Inmates’ discovery requests regarding lethal injection are particularly relevant and reasonable in light of the fact that, for over ten years, other states have continued to performThe high court found it impossible"to evaluate the State’s assessment that such drugs are not ‘available’ in South Carolina" without such information.
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