(Columbia, SC)-- South Carolina officials say they are ready to start carrying out executions by lethal injection again.
Governor McMaster and the Department of Corrections says they've notified the South Carolina Supreme Court that the unintentional 12-year hiatus from executions is coming to an end.
After the state's lethal injection drugs expired in 2013, a law was passed in 2021 to allow firing squad or electrocution as execution methods, but the measure is now being reviewed by the South Carolina Supreme Court to determine if it is constitutional or not.
The state has again obtained the drugs needed for lethal injection.
This comes after McMaster signed a law in May that hides the names of companies who sell lethal injection drugs to the state.