Florida Inmates Choose Lethal Injection
Given a choice, Florida’s death row inmates would rather be executed by lethal injection than in the electric chair, the state Department of Corrections said Tuesday.
Two-thirds of the 366 inmates on death row had until Monday to inform the Florida State Prison warden if they wanted to go to the electric chair rather than be injected with a fatal combination of drugs. None did, the state Department of Corrections said.
The remaining third have appeals pending before the Florida Supreme Court. If their sentences are upheld, they will have 30 days to make a decision on how to die.
The state changed its primary method of execution last month. The electric chair, previously the sole execution tool, had seen a decade marked by flames shooting from the apparatus in two executions and blood flowing from a man’s face in a third.
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