James Neil Tucker was executed by the State of South Carolina at 6:00 last night. Tucker was the first person to die in th electric chair in over a year. Inmates in South Carolina have until 14 days before their scheduled execution to choose lethal injection over the electric chair. If an inmate does not choose, he or she automatically receives the electric chair. Tucker was remorseful in his final statement, stating that he was ashamed and offering his "deepest apologies." When asked why he did not choose lethal injection, he stated that he felt making a choice in his manner of execution would condone his own death.
South Carolina man executed
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