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Originally posted by irateplatypus
To add to the sideline discussion on this thread: I think the last person to get the chair in this country did so in the state of Florida. Here in Oklahoma, I've haven't heard of anything but lethal injection for a long time.
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In 1977 Texas began conducting executions using lethal injections of drugs, claiming that this method was more humane than the electric chair. In 1981 Oklahoma did the same. In 1983 several more states made the switch from electrocution to lethal injection.
In 1999, three of 98 executions made use of the chair. Only Alabama and Nebraska retain the electric chair as their only available means of execution, though bills currently in the legislatures of both states would allow for the condemned to choose lethal injection.
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