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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. [33] The most recent execution by electric chair was of Nicholas Todd Sutton on February 20, 2020, in Tennessee.
As of 2024, Davis was the last Florida inmate executed by electric chair. Since the 2000 execution of Terry Melvin Sims, all subsequent executions were by lethal injection, and lethal injection is Florida's primary method of execution. However, inmates may still choose electrocution. As of 2024, only Wayne C. Doty has opted for death by ...
The electric chair was the sole means of execution in Florida from 1924 until 2000, when the Florida State Legislature, under pressure from the U.S. Supreme Court, signed lethal injection into law. Although no one has been executed in this manner since 1999, prisoners awaiting execution on Florida's death row may still be electrocuted at their ...
Tennessee has executed its longest-serving death row inmate, who became the second person put to death in the state's electric chair in just over a month.
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
The firing squad has only been used three times in the last 50 years – all in Utah, with the last execution of this type in 2010. The last time the electric chair was used was 2020.
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.
Before the execution, three friends visited Block for several hours. Block also saw a spiritual adviser. She had not requested a last meal, nor did she make a final statement. At approximately 12:00 midnight, she was placed in the electric chair and at 12:01 a.m., the current was turned on. At 12:10 a.m., she was pronounced dead.