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Budi

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6. Looks like he'd get a choice..still more than he gave his son.

Reply to 4Q2u2 (Reply #5)

Fri May 14, 2021, 01:14 PM

May 2021

The last execution to occur using it was that of Lynda Lyon Block on May 10, 2002.
On July 1 of that year, a revision to Alabama's death penalty went into effect allowing for an inmate to choose execution by either lethal injection or electrocution.

Alabama consistently has one of the highest execution rates in the U.S.
It has executed more than 60 people since 1983, including 11 people who were executed even though their juries voted for a life sentence..

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