States Find Other Execution Methods After Difficulties With Lethal Injection
States Find Other Execution Methods After Difficulties With Lethal Injection Enlarge this image toggle caption Nevada Department of Corrections via AP Nevada Department of Corrections via AP Death penalty laws are on the books in 31 states, but only five carried out executions last year. Sponsor Message "I'll admit, it's more and more difficult to carry out the sentence of the death penalty," says Republican Andy Gipson, chairman of the Mississippi House Judiciary B Committee. Mississippi hasn't executed anyone since 2012, but Gibson says that for the past six years lawmakers have had to tweak the state's death penalty statute to keep it constitutional. "There's been a precipitous decline in the number of both executions and death sentences in the last five years," says executive director Robert Dunham, adding that two-thirds of the states either don't have the death penalty or haven't executed anyone in more than a decade.
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