The SC Supreme Court halted the upcoming executions of 2 inmates until the state can come up with a way to create a firing squad.

The high court on June 16 issued the order 2 days before the 1st inmate, Brad Sigmon, was to be put to death. Freddie Owens was to have died this Friday.

In their ruling, the justices said death row inmates have a legal right to pick their method of death. Since SC currently has only one way of killing an inmate — the electric chair — that’s not possible right now. The court is not blocking the executions themselves, but delaying them until the state comes up with a way to carry out the other execution method, which is a firing squad.

Sigmon was set to die on Friday, while Owens was scheduled for execution on June 25. They would have been the first inmates to be put to death in a decade in the state.

Last week, a state circuit court and a federal district court refused to stop the executions.

No one on death row has been executed since 2011 because of an inability by the state to get the drugs necessary to execute inmates by lethal injection.

The SC General Assembly passed a new law earlier this year that aimed to bypass that problem by offering inmates the option of death by either the electric chair or firing squad. Gov. Henry McMaster signed the measure into law, saying it’s necessary to give families justice.

Sigmon killed his girlfriend’s parents in Greenville with a baseball bat in 2001. He’s been on death row since 2002. Owens was convicted of killing an employee of a convenience store.