Nebraska officially switched its execution method from the electric chair to lethal injection in 2009.
A judge gave state corrections officials the go-ahead today to carry out Florida's first lethal injection since the state changed its primary execution method from the electric chair.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has submitted its final execution method protocols to the Office of Law Administration for final review.
The U.S. has employed a variety of execution methods in its short history, including firing squads, gas chambers, hangings and electrocution.
New details about the drug Texas uses for its single-drug execution method came to light ahead of a trial that will be the first in the state to examine the secretive procedure before a federal judge in open court.
The measure adds an amendment safeguarding Oklahoma's right to execute people and gives lawmakers more power to determine execution methods.
This hasn't stopped America from executing its death row prisoners; instead, authorities have started concocting dangerously experimental drug combinations or returning to older execution methods.
A handful of states appear determined to keep the death penalty going in 2018, even if it means experimenting with previously untested drugs or reverting to more traditional execution methods.
The execution methods of choice: Stoning or beheading.
To that end, Thomas surveyed eighteenth-century execution methods that were, apparently, cruel and unusual even in those days.
