South Carolina murderer faces firing squad execution
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Rev. Hillary Taylor advocates for better mental health support in South Carolina amid a high rate of executions and for alternatives to the death penalty.
Tremane Wood received a last-minute commutation of his death sentence in Oklahoma, Bryan Jennings died by lethal injection in Florida, and Stephen Bryant died by firing squad in South Carolina.
No South Carolina governor has ever granted clemency in the modern era of the death penalty. Bryant will be the third man executed by firing squad in South Carolina this year. Struggles to find drugs to use for lethal injection led to an unintended 13-year ...