Prisoners on death row can now be shot dead by a firing squad as a US state passes a bill to bring back the old execution method.
The South Carolina House passed the new law with the state having started to run out of lethal-injections drugs with three death row inmates out of appeals.
Under the bill, lethal injection will remain the primary execution method if the state has the drugs.
But if they have run out, death row inmates must either choose between being shot or electrocuted.
South Carolina will become the fourth state to allow a firing squad, and it is one of nine that still uses the electric chair.
A death row inmate was last executed in the state 10 years ago.
Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah currently allow a firing squad for executions, according to the Death Penalty Information Centre in the US.
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Since the US reinstated the death penalty in 1977, three inmates, all in Utah, have been killed by firing squad.
Under former US President Donald Trump, 13 final death row prisoner were be killed during his administration's extraordinary execution spree.
The last was Dustin Higgs convicted of killing three women - Tamika Black, 19,Tanji Jackson, 21, and Mishann Chinn, 23 - who he denied murdering even in his last words.
Higgs was present when the three women were shot to death after a failed date on a wildlife reserve in Maryland in 1996.
However he did not personally shoot or kill any of the three women - the man who did was sentenced to life in prison.
Higgs was convicted for his role in the kidnap in murder - the prosecution claiming he oversaw and egged on the killings.
After a failed triple date with the three women, Higgs and accomplice, Haynes, had offered to drive them home but instead took them to the wildlife reserve.
Prosecutors said Higgs gave Haynes a gun and told him to shoot the three women.
Haynes, who confessed to being the shooter, was sentenced to life in prison while Higgs was sentenced to death in a separate trial, a disparity that his lawyers say was grounds for clemency.
Higgs, 48, always denied the accusation he was a ringleader, saying he had been set up and was merely a witness to the crime.
Only three people since 1963 had been executed by the federal government before Trump's time in power.
