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The South Carolina House of Representatives has voted in favor of firing squad as a method of execution.
According to the bill adopted on Wednesday, prisoners sentenced to death will have to decide whether they will choose to be shot or executed in an electric chair when lethal injection is not available.
The move is intended to restart executions in the US state.
South Carolina is one of only nine US states in which the electric chair is still in use and will be the fourth with a firing squad.
Exactly ten years have passed since the last execution.
From 2000 to 2010, an average of almost two prisoners were executed each year in South Carolina.
No one can currently be executed there because the supply of substances for lethal injection has expired and supplies are not available.
Prisoners can choose between the electric chair and lethal injection, and since there is no remedy for these, they choose the syringe.
The State Senate passed the bill back in March.
Republican Governor Henry McMaster has already announced that he will sign the law.