<P> Recorded incidents of botched electrocutions were prevalent after the national moratorium ended January 17, 1977; two in Alabama, three in Florida, one in Georgia, one in Indiana, and three in Virginia . All five states now have lethal injection as the default method if a choice is not made . </P> <P> As of 2015, the only places in the world which still reserve the electric chair as an option for execution are the U.S. states of Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia . (Arkansas and Oklahoma laws provide for its use should lethal injection ever be held to be unconstitutional .) Inmates in the other states must select either it or lethal injection . In Kentucky, only inmates sentenced before a certain date can choose to be executed by electric chair . Electrocution is also authorized in Kentucky in the event that lethal injection is found unconstitutional by a court . Tennessee was among the states that provided inmates with a choice of the electric chair or lethal injection; however, in May 2014, the state passed a law allowing the use of the electric chair if lethal injection drugs were unavailable or made unconstitutional . In the state of Florida, on July 8, 1999, Allen Lee Davis, convicted of murder, was executed in the Florida electric chair "Old Sparky". Davis' face was bloodied, and photographs were taken, which were later posted on the Internet . An investigation concluded that Davis had begun bleeding before the electricity was applied and that the chair had functioned as designed, Florida's Supreme Court ruled that the chair did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment. The 1997 execution of Pedro Medina in Florida created controversy when flames burst from the inmate's head . An autopsy found that Medina had died instantly when the first surge of electricity had destroyed his brain and brain stem, and a judge ruled that Florida's electric chair was in' excellent condition' . Lethal injection has been the primary method of execution in the state of Florida since 2000 . On February 15, 2008, the Nebraska Supreme Court declared execution by electrocution to be "cruel and unusual punishment" prohibited by the Nebraska Constitution . </P> <P> Robert Gleason, executed in the electric chair at Greensville Correctional Center, Virginia, on January 16, 2013, is the most recent individual to choose electrocution over lethal injection . </P>

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