Story out of Richmond, Virginia:
Virginia could use the electric chair to execute death-row inmates when lethal-injection drugs are not available, under a bill that passed the state Senate on Monday.
The legislation was approved by the House of Delegates in February, but it will have to return to that chamber because the Senate amended it. The Senate version requires the director of the Department of Corrections to make “substantial efforts” to obtain lethal-injection drugs before using the electric chair.
The electric chair is already an option in Virginia; condemned inmates are allowed to choose between it and lethal injection. The intent of the bill is to make the electric chair the default method of execution if the state is unable to obtain the lethal-injection drugs. Cont.
Story from - Washington Post
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