A South Carolina judge is considering whether to temporarily halt a new law effectively forcing death row prisoners to choose to die by either electric chair or firing squad. Attorneys for two men set to die later this month say the law is unconstitutional because their clients were sentenced under the old law that made lethal injection the default execution method. The state of South Carolina argues they are working to carry out executions under the methods available at the time. State Judge Jocelyn Newman said Monday that she'll make a decision in the next few days.
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