28 states+ and U.S. Military and U.S. Gov’t
In South Carolina, lethal injection may be elected as an alternative method, if available.
+includes 1 state that no longer have an active death penalty
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida^, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire*, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, [South Carolina], South Dakota, Tennessee^, Texas, Utah, Wyoming, U.S. Military, U.S. Government
*New Hampshire abolished the death penalty but the repeal may not apply retroactively, leaving a prisoner on death row facing possible execution.
To find the drug protocols used by states, see State-by-State Lethal Injection.
Electrocution 163 9 states (in South Carolina, electrocution is the default method; the other 8 have lethal injection as default method).[Alabama], [Arkansas], Florida, Kentucky, [Louisiana], [Mississippi], [Oklahoma], South Carolina, [Tennessee]
The supreme courts of Georgia (2001) and Nebraska (2008) have ruled that the use of the electric chair violates their state constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment.
Virginia had authorized the electric chair as a method of execution in some cases, but it repealed the death penalty in March 2021.
Lethal Gas 16 9 states (all have lethal injection as default method)[Alabama], [Arkansas], Arizona, California, [Louisiana], [Mississippi], Missouri, [Oklahoma], [Wyoming]
Five states (Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma) specifically authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia. Alabama and Louisiana have issued a protocol for its use. Alabama and Louisiana are the only states that have performed an execution by nitrogen hypoxia.
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