South Carolina supreme court rules state’s death penalty is legal

Methods include firing squad, lethal injection and electric chair, while as many as eight inmates may be out of appeals

The South Carolina supreme court ruled on Wednesday that the state's death penalty, which now includes a firing squad as well as lethal injection and the electric chair, is legal.

All five justices agreed with at least part of the ruling, opening the door to restart executions in a state that has not put a prisoner to death since 2011. But two of the justices said they felt the firing squad was not a legal way to kill a prisoner and one of them felt the electric chair was a cruel and unusual punishment.