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South Carolina Law Forces Death Row Inmates To Choose Firing Squad Or Electric Chair

The state's electric chair is 109 years old.
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Tennessee Executes Stephen West By Electric Chair

The 56-year-old became the third inmate in the state to be executed in the electric chair since November.
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Tennessee Officials Deny Death Row Prisoner's Request For Electric Chair

Edmund Zagorski said he did "not want to be subjected to the torture" of lethal injection.
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Virginia Governor Scraps Electric Chair Law

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Virginia Governor Scraps Electric Chair Law

The electric chair has already been declared cruel and unusual punishment by two death penalty states.
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Virginia Lawmakers Vote To Bring Back The Electric Chair

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Virginia Lawmakers Vote To Bring Back The Electric Chair

One lawmaker said the bill may actually speed the death penalty's decline in the long run.
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Drugs, Guns, or Life in Prison

Herewith a study of the activities of two state legislatures that have dealt with identical problems in quite different ways. The two legislatures are in the states of Utah and Nebraska, and the reader may decide which of the two is the more enlightened.
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Jesus Died in a Police State

For all the accolades poured out upon Jesus, little is said about the harsh realities of the police state in which he lived and its similarities to modern-day America, and yet they are striking.
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A Closer Look at the Death Penalty as Utah Considers Firing Squads

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