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2nd SC execution on hold after court halts firing

squad plan

(AP) — South Carolina's highest court, two
days after pausing plans for a rare firing
squad execution, announced Friday that it
“Señor ta mi wardador, was putting another execution on hold as in-
mi’n tin falta di nada mates challenge the constitutionality of the
Den cunucu di yerba state's capital punishment methods.
berde e ta ponemi sosega.
E ta hibami na awa The temporary stay issued by the state Supreme
trankil, Court means the planned May 13 execution of
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”. Brad Keith Sigmon won't move forward for now.
Salmo: 23
The order comes after the court this week tem-
porarily blocked the state from executing Richard
Bernard Moore, whose scheduled April 29 execu-
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento di: tion would have marked the country's first firing
squad execution since 2010.

Reina Ras Moore and Sigmon were scheduled to be the first
Mihor conoci como: Wela Reina, Nene, Tantan people executed in South Carolina after a 2021
*15-03-1935 - †18-04-2022 law made electrocution the state's default capi-
tal punishment method and also gave death row
Mama: †Johanna de Cuba prisoners the option of execution by firing squad.
Tata: †Jose Ras Sigmon had not so far not chosen an execution
method. did clarify Friday that prison officials shouldn't
Na nomber di su: move forward with the April 29 execution.
Yiunan: Lawyers for both men had sought stays, citing
Meredith y †Henk Ras-Mulder y yiunan pending litigation in another court challenging A state judge agreed last week to examine a le-
Maria y Ramon-Ras y yiunan the constitutionality of South Carolina's execu- gal challenge brought by Moore, Sigmon and
Gwelda Ras y yiunan tion methods. two other death row inmates who have mostly
Jhonny Ras y yiunan exhausted their appeals. Their lawyers argue that
Selma Ras y yiunan The state Supreme Court has provided little ex- both electrocution and the firing squad are "bar-
†Evelyn Ras y yiunan planation on exactly why the executions have been baric" methods of killing. The prisoners' attorneys
Kathlien y Eduardo Gomez Navarrio delayed and for how long they will be delayed, also want the judge to closely examine prisons
Susan Y George Gomez-Lopez with justices indicating in both cases that more officials' claims that they can't get hold of lethal
detailed orders would be forthcoming. The court injection drugs, citing executions by that method
Nieto(a)nan, bisanieto(a)nan, tataranieto(a)nan carried out by other states and the federal govern-
ment in recent years.
Rumannan:
†Teresita Ras-Loefstok South Carolina's last execution was in 2011. State
†Josefa Ras officials have attributed the decadelong hiatus to
†Lucia Ras an inability to secure lethal injection drugs after
†Ale Ras the state's last batch expired in 2013. Efforts to
†Julianita Ras contact manufacturers and compounding phar-
macies have proved unfruitful, Corrections De-
Tantanan: partment officials have repeatedly said.
†Antonio Tromp y famia
†Imelda Tromp y famia The 2021 law that now requires prisoners to
†Emerencia T romp y famia “Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada choose between the firing squad and the electric
Dionisia Giel-Tromp y famia Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi sosega. chair was intended to solve that problem.
E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Iha: Judith v/d Biezen Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”. State prisons officials had previously planned in
Salmo: 23 June 2021 to electrocute Sigmon, a 64-year-old
Prima y primonan, Bisiñanan, amigo y who has spent nearly two decades on death row
amiganan, Staff y personal y compañeronan Cu inmenso tristeza na nos curazon after he was convicted in 2002 of killing his ex-
Maristella, ex-coleganan St Dominicus y nos ta participa fayecimento di: girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat. The high
SKOA court put that execution plan on hold, saying Sig-
mon needed to have a choice between the electric
Demas famia: Ras, de Cuba, Gomez, Peach, chair and the firing squad.
Wolf, Lopez, Navarrio, Mulder, Tromp,
Hernandez, Webb, Maduro, Riley, Dijkhoff, Prison officials said last month that they had fin-
Vrolijk, Donata, Kelly, Phillips, Oliver, Cicek, ished a $53,600 overhaul of its death chamber to
Helder, Geerman, Regtequi, Josepha, Aranda, accommodate a firing squad and established pro-
Diaz, Boekhoudt, Loepstok, v/d Biezen tocols calling for three volunteer prison workers
with rifles to carry out such an execution.
Nos disculpa si den nos tristeza nos por a
lubida un of otro famia. South Carolina is one of eight states to still use
the electric chair and one of four to allow a firing
Ta invita pa e acto di entiero cu lo tuma lugar squad, according to the Washington-based non-
diamars 26 di April 2022 di 2’or pa 4’or di profit Death Penalty Information Center.
atardi na misa Santa Anna y despues saliendo Elsewhere in the South, Tennessee's governor
pa Santana catolico na Noord. called off his state's first scheduled execution
Sra. Vda. Anna Vrolijk- Kransen Thursday since the start of the pandemic. The
Despues di entiero nos no ta ricibi bishita di *26-07-1942 - †21-04-2022 Republican governor, Bill Lee, had said there was
condolencia na cas an unspecified "oversight" in plans to give a lethal
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues. injection to 72-year-old inmate Oscar Smith. Lee
declined to release additional details on Friday.