Claim: In states still employing the electric chair to execute people, the prisoner is allowed the choice of lethal injection as an alternative method.
Evidence: Execution by electrocution , performed using an electric chair , is a method of execution originating in the United States in which the condemned person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes fastened on the head and leg.
The sentence that someone be punished in such a manner is referred to as a death sentence , whereas the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution.
They allow the prisoner to choose lethal injection as an alternative method.