Are there any states in the United States that still carry the electric chair as a death penalty?

Answer 1

Prisoners can be electrocuted in Alabama, Florida, South Carolina and Virginia at their request. Prisoners sentenced to death for crimes committed before March 31st, 1998 in Kentucky can be electrocuted at their request. Prisoners sentenced to death for crimes committed before December 31st, 1998 in Tennessee can be electrocuted at their request. Prisoners sentenced to death in Arkansas, Illinois and Oklahoma can be electrocuted if lethal injection can't be administered. Electrocution was the required method of execution in the states of Pennsylvania until 1990, Ohio until 1993, Virginia until 1994, Indiana and South Carolina until 1995, Florida until 2000, Georgia until 2001, Alabama until 2002 and Nebraska until 2008. In 2001, Ohio junked their electric chair, which until then had been an optional device for prisoners since 1993. One inmate who selected electrocution in Ohio was denied his final wish after a stay of execution delayed it until 2002.

Answer 2

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia jurisdictions still provide for the use of electrocution.

Alabama - injection is administered unless the prisoner requests electrocution.

Arkansas - electrocution is administered if injection can't be.

Florida - prisoner is given a choice of electrocution or injection.

Illinois - electrocution is administered if injection can't be.

Kentucky - electrocution is administered to prisoners sentenced to death for crimes committed before March 31, 1998 unless they choose the alternative of injection.

Oklahoma - electrocution is administered if injection can't be.

South Carolina - prisoner is given a choice of electrocution or injection.

Tennessee - electrocution is administered to prisoners sentenced to death for crimes committed before December 31, 1998 unless they choose the alternative of injection.

Virginia - prisoner is given a choice of electrocution or injection.

Oklahoma was, oddly enough, the first jurisdiction to replace electrocution with injection. Texas was the first jurisdiction to actually use it, December 7, 1982.

Ohio jurisdiction provided for the use of electrocution until 2001, when the Ohio General Assembly passed a bill barring further use of it and making injection the sole method of execution.

Answer 3

While use of the electric chair is rare today, three states - Georgia, Alabama, and Nebraska - use it as thier main form of execution. Arkansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennesse, Virginia, and Florida offer the option to use it.

Answer 4

At the current time of 2013, no states use electrocution anymore. Electrocution as a death penalty was ruled as unconstitutional. Now the punishment for the death sentence is now lethal injections.

Answer 5

Capital punishment in the form of the electric chair is optional for electrocution in Alabama, Florida, South Carolina and Virginia. In Kentucky, it is optional for crimes committed before March 31, 1998.

Answer 6

As of 2018 the only places in the world that still reserve the electric chair as an option for execution are the U.S. states of Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Arkansas and Oklahoma laws provide for its use should lethal injection ever be held to be unconstitutional.

Answer 7

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia jurisdictions still use the electric chair

Answer 8

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, west Virginia

Answer 9

there are still 3 states in america that use it as thier main form of execution. Georgia, Alabama, and Nebraska

last edited 21st June 2012

Answer 10

i don't know. That's y i asked :D