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The last person to be executed by electric chair without the choice of an alternative method was Lynda Lyon Block on May 10, 2002, in Alabama. [34] The most recent execution by electric chair was of Nicholas Todd Sutton on February 20, 2020, in Tennessee.
From 1924 to 1964, 361 people were executed in this way. [2] After an 18-year gap following Furman v. Georgia, executions were resumed following new capital-punishment laws passed by the State of Texas (and upheld in Gregg v. Georgia, which also included a companion case from Texas), among them changing the method of execution to lethal injection.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1960 and 1964. During this period 29 people were executed by electrocution at the Huntsville Unit in Texas. [1] [2] Joseph Johnson became the last person in Texas to be executed by the electric chair on July 30, 1964. [3]
Ted Bundy was executed via electric chair on January 24, 1989. The infamous serial killer, who murdered more than 30 women, was sentenced to capital punishment in Florida State Prison.
In the end, Sutton's death sentence was cemented, as Governor Bill Lee rejected his clemency application a week before the scheduled execution date. This was soon followed by a refusal from the Supreme Court to issue a stay of execution. [1] On February 20, 2020, Sutton was executed via electric chair at the
electric chair: A Virginia: 6 July 2017 [108] William Charles Morva: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Washington: 10 September 2010 [109] Cal Coburn Brown: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Washington, D.C. 26 April 1957 [110] Robert E. Carter: murder: electric chair: A West Virginia: 3 April 1959: Elmer Bruner: aggravated murder ...
The scheduled execution of a death row inmate whose case has drawn widespread scrutiny was halted by the Texas Supreme Court late Thursday night as doubts linger over whether his decades-old ...
Old Sparky at the Tucker Unit, Arkansas.It was used to conduct 104 executions from 1926 to 1948. Old Sparky is the nickname of the electric chairs in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.