A report shows that execution methods vary from state to state in the United States.
Pak Sahafat News Agency – Recently, at the request of a prisoner on death row in the US state of Tennessee for his execution using an electric chair, he raised questions about the execution methods that are still practiced in the United States.
According to Yahoo News, while lethal injection is the primary method of execution for the federal government and states where the death penalty is still active, there are alternative methods that have been used for nearly a decade.
From electrocution deaths to fire brigades, here are some facts about the methods used in the states.
What are the state-based execution methods?
At present, 31 states, as well as the federal government and the US military, carry out executions.
Lethal injection is the primary means of execution in states where executions are legal.
These states are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Ohio South, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming.
Electric chairs are an alternative method of execution in nine states; Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
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The gas chamber is also an alternative method of execution in seven states; Alabama, Arizona, California, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wyoming.
Hanging is allowed as an alternative to execution in two states; New Hampshire and Washington.
Squadron fire is an alternative method of execution in three states; Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah.
Tennessee also used an electric chair twice last year, and another execution is planned for the third time.
When was the last time a fire brigade was used for execution?
Utah prisoner Ronnie Lee Gardner, who was convicted of murder in 1985, was executed on June 18, 2010 by a fire brigade.
At the time, he was the first person to be executed by a fire brigade in Utah in 14 years; He chose this method instead of lethal injection.
When was the last time a gas chamber was used in an execution?
According to the US Death Penalty Information Center, Walter Lagrand was the last person to be executed on March 3, 1999 in Arizona with lethal gas.
After his conviction, Lagrand chose the gas chamber as the method of execution.