Meanings of execution method in English

Lawmakers in Missouri and Wyoming proposed adding firing squad as an execution method earlier this year.

Lawmakers in Missouri and Wyoming proposed adding firing squads as an execution method earlier this year.

The inmates argued that the three-drug execution method violates their Eighth Amendment constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.

Tennessee Attorney General Robert E. Cooper Jr. has issued an advisory opinion that electrocution is constitutionally defensible as an execution method.

Thirty-eight men and one woman were put to death there before the state changed its execution method in 1989 to lethal injection.

Tennessee Attorney General Robert Cooper Jr. issued an advisory opinion stating that electrocution is constitutionally defensible as an execution method earlier this year.

California has not carried out any executions since 2006, as a series of court battles over execution methods have been waged.

Tennessee's high court had previously suspended the execution of Billy Ray Irick, scheduled for last October, based on the same constitutional challenges surrounding execution methods.

"It comes from a Chinese execution method, abolished in 1905, called lingchi, translated also as 'slow slicing' or 'the lingering death.'"