when was the last time someone was executed by electric chair
January 16, 2013
title: Electric chair text: Constitution. David Earl Miller, executed in the electric chair at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee on December 6, 2018 was the most recent execution by electrocution. Prior to Miller, the most recent electrocution was of Edmund Zagorski, also at the Riverbend Maximun Security Institution, occurring 35 days prior to Miller on November 1, 2018. The most recent execution in the electric chair outside of Tennessee was Robert Gleason, who was executed in the electric chair at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia, on January 16, 2013. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/11/01/execution-edmund-zagorski-tennessee-electric-chair/1853152002/ Electric chair Execution by electrocution, performed using an electric title: Electric chair text: adopted for use in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom performed its last execution in 1964, and abolished capital punishment for murder the following year, thereby rendering any debate over method moot. A number of states still allow the condemned person to choose between electrocution and lethal injection. In all, fourteen inmates nationwide – seven in Virginia, three in South Carolina, three in Tennessee and one in Arkansas – have opted for electrocution over lethal injection. The most recent use of the chair was on December 6, 2018, when David Earl Miller was executed in Tennessee after he elected to title: Electric chair text: related to the atomic bomb with the Soviet Union. James French was executed on August 10, 1966, the last person electrocuted until 1979. French was the first person executed in Oklahoma since Richard Dare was electrocuted June 1, 1963, and the only person executed in 1966. On May 25, 1979, John Spenkelink became the first person to be electrocuted after the "Gregg v. Georgia" decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1976. He was the first person to be executed in the United States in this manner since 1966. Serial murderer and rapist Ted Bundy was executed title: Electric chair text: die by electrocution over lethal injection. After 1966, electrocutions ceased for a time in the United States, but the method continued in the Philippines. A well-publicized triple execution took place in May 1972, when Jaime Jose, Basilio Pineda and Edgardo Aquino were electrocuted for the 1967 abduction and gang-rape of the young actress Maggie dela Riva. The last execution in the Philippines was in 2000, utilizing lethal injection, and the death penalty was abolished six years later. Serial killer Lizzie Halliday was the first woman sentenced to die in the electric chair, in 1894, but governor Roswell P. Flower commuted title: Electric chair text: in the same electric chair in Florida on January 24, 1989. 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. The use of the electric chair has declined as legislators sought what they believed to be more humane methods of execution. Lethal injection became the most widely used method, aided by media reports of botched electrocutions in the early 1980s. The electric chair has been criticized because of several instances in which the subjects were killed only after being subjected to multiple electric