Officials in South Carolina announced the state has established the protocols needed to reintroduce firing squads as a means of execution for condemned prisoners, becoming the fourth states where it is allowed, Reuters reports.
Prisoners can chose between electrocution, lethal injection (when possible based on drug availability) or firing squad for their deaths, with the electric chair being the default method.
Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah are the other states where firing squads can execute prisoners, and Utah is the only one which has used the method, with three condemned prisoners choosing firing squad since 1976.