States are looking for new ways to execute people, and now they’re implicating South Carolinians. Whether it be a firing squad, the electric chair, or suffocation by nitrogen gas, South Carolina has its hand in calling for each. In our name, they are forsaking one of God’s most sacred principles, “Thou shalt not kill." For the sake of our souls, we must stop them.
Incarcerated people have a constitutional right to healthcare. Yet many corrections agencies — 29 state prison systems and nearly two-thirds of the local jails across the U.S. — outsource medical care for incarcerated people to private corporations whose profit motives stand in direct conflict with their duty to provide care.