South Carolina
The state installed the "Old Sparky" in 1912 at the Central Correctional Institution (CCI), until the chair was relocated to the newly-built Broad River Correctional Institution in 1990 where it is managed by the South Carolina Department of Corrections. In 1997 all death row inmates were relocated from Broad River to the Lieber Correctional Institution. The move provided better management controls and ensured correctional staff who dealt with condemned prisoners on a daily basis were not the same officers given the responsibility of carrying out the death sentence.
The most recent use of "Old Sparky" was in June 21, 2008 when convicted murderer James Earl Reed opted for this method of execution.
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