I know they use the electric chair and lethal injection, but is it true they still hang people in some states?
2006-07-17 13:08:21 · 4 answers · asked by lovethesun 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Lethal injection, the electric chair, the gas chamber, hanging, and firing squad are legal means of execution in at least one state. Usually the person to be executed has a choice if more than one means is legal in that particular state. If I remember correctly, Gary Gilmore chose Firing Squad over lethal injection. Following is an excerpt from Wikepedia:
Currently lethal injection is the method used or allowed in 37 of the 38 states which allow the death penalty and by the federal government. Nebraska requires electrocution. Other states also allow electrocution, gas chambers, hanging and the firing squad. From 1976 to June 30, 2006, out of 1,029 executions: 861 have been by lethal injection, 152 by electrocution, 11 by gas chamber, 3 by hanging, and 2 by firing squad.[14]
2006-07-17 13:25:34 · answer #1 · answered by spirus40 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are five methods in which the US executes convicted criminals - the electric chair, the gas chamber, leathal injection, and the last two, and rarest forms - the firing squad and hanging.
2006-07-17 13:22:51 · answer #2 · answered by triton2toro 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lethal injection that's it
2006-07-17 13:12:34 · answer #3 · answered by piezie1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice stats in the answer above. Thanks for the info. It was an interesting question. God Bless!
2006-07-17 16:02:11 · answer #4 · answered by fiteprogram 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋