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US-JUSTICE-EXECUTION-FILES
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BT CHANTAL VALERY
(FILES)"Old Sparky", the electric chair, responsible for sending 361 prisoners to their deaths before its use was discontinued in 1965 is pictured in the Texas Prison Museum in this May 21, 2013 file photo in Huntsville, Texas. Electric chairs, gas chambers or firing squad: American states that retain the death penalty are mulling a return to long-abandoned execution methods as they grapple with a shortage of lethal injection drugs. A handful of officials in Virginia, Wyoming and Missouri are proposing to return to methods of execution from a bygone era, horrifying abolitionists who want to see the death penalty scrapped altogether. Since 1982, lethal injection has gradually become the execution method of choice across the 32 states that practice the death penalty. AFP PHOTO / CHANTAL VALERY
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Huntsville, Texas, UNITED STATES |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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CHANTAL VALERY |
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4 Februarie 2014 |
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