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Tennessee inmate chooses electric chair over lethal injection [View all]
Source: BBC
Tennessee inmate chooses electric chair over lethal injection
6 December 2018
An inmate in the US state of Tennessee is to be executed by electric chair after arguing that a lethal injection would involve suffering.
David Earl Miller, who has spent 36 years on death row, is among an increasing number of inmates attempting to avoid lethal injection following several botched executions.
Another Tennessee inmate, Edmund Zagorski, was electrocuted last month.
Lethal injection is the state's main method of execution.
However, inmates in the state whose crimes were committed before 1999 are allowed to choose electrocution instead.
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6 December 2018
An inmate in the US state of Tennessee is to be executed by electric chair after arguing that a lethal injection would involve suffering.
David Earl Miller, who has spent 36 years on death row, is among an increasing number of inmates attempting to avoid lethal injection following several botched executions.
Another Tennessee inmate, Edmund Zagorski, was electrocuted last month.
Lethal injection is the state's main method of execution.
However, inmates in the state whose crimes were committed before 1999 are allowed to choose electrocution instead.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46465038
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