A high court in the US state of South Carolina has blocked two executions until the inmates are given the choice of death by electrocution or firing squad.
A new law requires inmates on death row to decide between the two methods if lethal drugs are not available.
But as prison authorities have not yet formed a firing squad, the executions have been halted by the Supreme Court.
Inmates Brad Sigmon and Freddie Owens were due to be executed this month.
The convicted murderers were denied lethal injections – their favoured option – because prison authorities did not have the drugs needed.
A shortage of these drugs has led to a 10-year pause in this method of execution in the state.
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