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The 2020 Election and Your Rights

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ACLU of South Carolina Condemns Senate Decision to Resurrect the Electric Chair as South Carolina’s Default Method of Execution

South Carolina’s death penalty is racist, arbitrary, and error-prone. Today our state Senate ignored these realities and moved South Carolina one step closer to resurrecting the electric chair as the state's default method of execution. It is unconscionable.

March 3, 2021

Testimony of Chase Strangio in Opposition to H. 3477 (Anti-Trans Youth Legislation)

Such an extreme policy violates the United States Constitution and federal civil rights law, puts South Carolina at risk of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, and harms transgender youth, all to solve a problem that plainly does not exist.

March 1, 2021