After a decade-long halt on capital punishment, the state of South Carolina is likely to restart executions after Governor Henry McMaster on Friday signed a law that will give death row inmates the option between choosing death by an electric chair or novel firing squad.

The bill, which was among dozens that landed on the Governor’s desk on Thursday, was given a nod without much announcement, likely to keep the new legislation low-key, Associated Press reported.

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However, McMaster later tweeted on Monday, “This weekend, I signed legislation into law that will allow the state to carry out a death sentence.”

The tweet added, “The families and loved ones of victims are owed closure and justice by law. Now, we can provide it.”

The state of South Carolina has been reportedly running dry of lethal injection doses.

The new law comes into the picture a week after South Carolina’s state authorities agreed to a legislature that would continue to consider a lethal injection as the primary and preferred method of carrying out capital punishment. 

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However, in a case where the state has no supply of lethal injections, alternate methods like an electric chair or firing squad would be used.

Prosecutors said that multiple death row inmates had earlier picked the option of getting a lethal injection administered and can not be executed as the state did not have any supply, according to a report from the Associated Press.