article_snippet: Thirty-two states still have the death penalty, and The U.S.'s Death Rows are clogged with more than 3,000 condemned prisoners because of a string of botched lethal injections.
article_snippet: In 2014, 35 people were executed in U.S. — the fewest since 1994.
article_snippet: But other states are proving no less ruthless in other states determination to find an alternative to lethal injections.
article_snippet: Death by lethal injection remains the most common method of state-sanctioned execution.
article_snippet: In Oklahoma, where prisoner Clayton Lockett writhed and groaned for 43 minutes in a lethal injection disaster last year, Politicians in Alabama and Tennessee have voted to execute people by gassing people with nitrogen.
article_snippet: Even Texas, which in some years executes more people than the rest of The U.S. put together, recently announced these macabre initiatives is down to these macabre initiatives last dose of lethal injection.