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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 secondary executions were replications of the primary executions with two other applications They were created to avoid the risk of getting unbalanced results during the primary execution, since some data that we gathered during the pilot study were rendered invalid.
Gov. Mary Fallin (R) signed the law authorizing nitrogen hypoxia as a backup if the primary execution method, lethal injection, isn't available.
South Carolina is one of only nine states that allow for execution by electric chair, but this bill would make it the only state to require the electric chair as the primary execution method.
Lethal injection, which is the primary method of execution nationwide, would remain the default method of execution in Utah if the law passes.
(Some have even considered reviving firing squads or other older methods, which were left behind as lethal injection became the primary method of execution). This has resulted in additional scrutiny of how these executions are carried out, something that has only been heightened after three executions in three different states went awry this year.
The Legislature is considering two bills that would make injection the state's primary form of execution.
Most of the 38 states with death penalty laws have switched since 1950 to lethal injection as the primary means of execution.
In making the choice, the Oklahoma legislature consulted no experts and did no studies on the procedure before adopting it as the state's primary method of execution.
Electrocution, asphyxiation by poisonous gas, shooting by a firing squad, and hanging are alternatives in states where lethal injection is currently the primary means of execution.
Lethal injection, the primary method of execution in this country, was first adopted in Oklahoma in 1977 and used for the first time in Texas five years later.
