<Li> Hanging in Washington . </Li> <P> In five states (Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Utah), the alternative method is offered only to inmates sentenced to death for crimes committed prior to a specified date (usually when the state switched from the earlier method to lethal injection). </P> <P> When an offender chooses to be executed by a means different from the state default method, which is always lethal injection, he / she loses the right to challenge its constitutionality in court . See Stewart v. LaGrand, 526 US 115 (1999). </P> <P> The last executions by methods other than injection are as follows (all chosen by the inmate): </P>

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