The South Carolina Senate has voted to switch executions from lethal injections to electrocution.

35 inmates on South Carolina's death row may now face the electric chair

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A bill making the electric chair the default method of execution in South Carolina has again passed the state Senate.(Above: Death Row Inmate's Final Words Set Two Innocent Men Free)Senators voted 26-13 Wednesday to switch the main way executions are performed from lethal injection to electrocution. The bill moves to the House, where a similar proposal died last year.South Carolina has not executed anyone since 2011, in part because the state's supply of lethal injection drugs expired and prison officials have been unable to buy a new supply. Under the Senate proposal, inmates could choose lethal injection if the drugs are available.The bill also allows inmates to choose a firing squad.South Carolina currently has 35 inmates on death row.(Below: Georgia Prisoner To Be Executed Seeks Firing Squad Instead Of Injection)

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A bill making the electric chair the default method of execution in South Carolina has again passed the state Senate.

(Above: Death Row Inmate's Final Words Set Two Innocent Men Free)


Senators voted 26-13 Wednesday to switch the main way executions are performed from lethal injection to electrocution. The bill moves to the House, where a similar proposal died last year.

South Carolina has not executed anyone since 2011, in part because the state's supply of lethal injection drugs expired and prison officials have been unable to buy a new supply. Under the Senate proposal, inmates could choose lethal injection if the drugs are available.

The bill also allows inmates to choose a firing squad.

South Carolina currently has 35 inmates on death row.

(Below: Georgia Prisoner To Be Executed Seeks Firing Squad Instead Of Injection)