Although Texas recently abandoned a three-drug cocktail in favor of a single-drug method for execution, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said it did not intend to change its policy.
Oklahoma's state legislature approved the use of nitrogen gas as a backup method for execution in 2015.
Crucifixion itself, usually reserved for slaves, non-Romans, radicals, revolutionaries and the worst criminals, was not only a common method for execution by Romans but was also the most feared.
Unless Texas law is changed to allow for other methods of execution, the criminal justice department will have to continue its search for the anesthesia overseas, primarily in countries that abhor the death penalty.
In addition to electrocutions and lethal injections, eight states also allow for other methods of execution.
California proposes new single-drug method for executions.
The move could prevent a repeat of Lenovo's embarrassing self-inflicted security hole from March this year, by requiring that any advertising-based software only use a web browser's official methods for installation, execution, disabling and removal.
The other is to overcome the high evidentiary bar Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. set for all challenges to methods of execution.
As the Washington Post's Philip Bump points out, the use of the electric chair isn't exactly new it was one of the more common methods of execution in the US for most of the 20th century.
After hearing testimony from defense lawyers criticizing the electric chair, the Georgia Legislature last year adopted lethal injection as the method of execution for anyone sentenced after May 1, 2000.
Hanging has been a method of execution for thousands of years.
