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When was the last year the electric chair was used in the US?

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When was the last year the electric chair was used in the US?

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  1. June 20, 2008 when James Earl Reed was executed in South Carolina.

    Currently there are eight states that still use the electric chair for executions and all them them offer lethal injection as an alternative.

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    This is what the wiki says about the states that still use the electric chair or has it as an option:

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    Electrocution is currently an optional form of execution in the U.S. states of Alabama, Florida, South Carolina and Virginia, though they allow the prisoner to choose lethal injection as an alternative method. In the states of Kentucky and Tennessee, the electric chair has been retired except for those whose capital crimes were committed prior to legislated dates in 1998 [Kentucky March 31, 1998, Tennessee December 31, 1998] and who choose electrocution. In both states, inmates who do not choose electrocution or inmates who committed their crimes after the designated date are put to death by lethal injection. The electric chair is an alternate form of execution approved for potential use in Illinois and Oklahoma if other forms of execution are found unconstitutional in the state at the time of execution. In Florida, the condemned may choose death by electrocution, but the default is lethal injection.

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