South Carolina officials — which is just a wordy way of saying “we” because officials act in our names until we say “stop” — have killed five death row inmates since the state Supreme Court let executions resume in September.
The court cleared the way for that by ruling the state’s new, unusual method of allowing the condemned to choose death by electric chair, lethal injection or firing squad was humane.
Now, those same judges have been notified that the last execution was badly “botched,” a stunning revelation that should call into question — even for death penalty advocates — whether South Carolina can execute people as state officials — we — say that people shall be executed…