38 men are appealing death sentences in SC.

There are no women now on SC’s Death Row.

Even when appeals are exhausted and a execution order is signed, SC has no lethal injection drugs.

A nationwide shortage of the drugs leaves many questions for state lawmakers to answer on executions.

SC can’t execute an inmate unless he chooses to die by electrocution as 3 have since 1995 when lethal injection became state law.

But SC has had no execution drugs since the state’s supply of pentobarbital – 1 part of the lethal 3-drug cocktail – expired. The supply of the other 2 drugs has since expired.

SC can’t get the drugs since pharmaceutical companies will no longer supply them, Corrections Director Bryan Stirling told legislators repeatedly.

The state Senate but not the House passed a bill approving execution by electrocution or firing squad if lethal injection is unavailable earlier this year.

SC last used lethal injection in 2011 and electrocution in 2008.

Child killer Tim Jones Jr.of Red Bank is being held on Kirkland Correctional Institution’s Death Row.

The Death House where any future executions will take place is at Broad River Correctional Institution.

The electric chair is housed there, too.

Death Row inmates have an opportunity to worship weekly in a 1-on-1 visit with a chaplain or religious volunteer. An outside music minister visits quarterly.

Inmates can visit the law library, which includes a computer with the legal research tool Westlaw.

They can shower daily.

Jones has been on antipsyschotic drugs since his arrest in 2014, Chrysti Shain, SCDOC Director of Communications said, but prison officials cannot talk about inmates’ medical treatment.

Jones, like other inmates, is allowed books, magazines and television. He is allowed to buy a portable listening device and listen to music if he chooses. He is not allowed on the internet.

Death Row inmates are allowed 8 visits each month from people on their approved visitor list. They can have as many visits from their attorneys as requested.

Jones is allowed to make and receive telephone calls up to 15 minutes each.