Death Row defenders never give up.

Attorneys for SC inmates Brad Sigmon and Freddie Owens have asked the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to halt their deaths by electrocution this month.

The condemned men want to overturn a judge’s refusal to halt their upcoming executions.

The attorneys say the state should try harder to find or compound lethal injection drugs.

South Carolina’s revised capital punishment law compels the condemned to choose between electrocution or a firing squad if lethal injection drugs aren’t available.

A firing squad has yet to be created, leaving only the electric chair.

Sigmon, 63, was convicted in 2002 of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat in Greenville County.

Owens, 43, was convicted in 1999 for the murder of gas station employee Irene Graves during an armed robbery in Greenville County.

Lexington County Sen. Dick Harpootlian, a former prosecutor, championed firing squads over the electric chair as a quicker, more humane way.

The attorneys called the law unconstitutional because their clients were sentenced under an older law that allowed lethal injection.