We would do well to heed Judge Newman’s descriptions of these brutal means of carrying out executions.
, and offered a long list of alleged violations of law. Key to their suit was their contention that “both electrocution and the firing squad are prohibited by the South Carolina constitution” and that their “right to elect their manner of execution is rendered meaningless by the lack of constitutional choices….
First, the firing squad: Being put to death by a firing squad is the rarest of all the methods of execution used in the United States since 1900. During that period, it hasJudge Newman described the firing squad as a “reversion to a historic method of execution that has never before been used by our State….” She concluded that it would be “unusual” and for that reason unconstitutional.But her indictment of the firing squad did not stop there.
, Judge Newman said that the firing squad causes “pain beyond that necessary for the mere extinguishment of …..” The judge was also unsparing in her treatment of the electric chair. Unlike the firing squad, South Carolina . Since 1976, the state has electrocuted seven people. Judge Newman found from each of these cases that “South Carolina’s electric chair causes severe damage to the inmate’s body.”“There is evidence,” she continued, that “inmates executed by electrocution continue to move, breathe and even scream after the shock is administered… would suffer the experience of being burned alive.”
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