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South Carolina Corrections Director Bryan Stirling said the state’s electric chair was tested last month, its firing squad has the ammunition and training, and the lethal injection drug was tested and found pure by technicians at the state crime lab, according to a certified letter sent to Moore.
Richard Moore, condemned South Carolina inmate, chooses to die by lethal injection →
On Tuesday, four months later, state Corrections Director Bryan Stirling announced he bought a supply of pentobarbital and the state would begin using the sedative as the only drug in its executions.
