As of 2025, Tennessee law permits inmates who were convicted of crimes before January 1999 to choose electrocution (the electric chair) instead of the state's preferred method of execution, lethal injection.
November 10, 2025
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policy
State statutory or regulatory provision governing method-of-execution choice for certain inmates.
A 2021 South Carolina state law specifies that electrocution is the default method of execution if lethal injection drugs are not available.
January 01, 2021
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legal
State contingency rule for execution method when lethal injection drugs are unavailable