Tennessee Senate advances bill to bring back electric chair

By Tim Ghianni NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - Tennessee's electric chair would be pressed back into service for executions if the state cannot obtain drugs needed to carry out lethal injections under a bill advanced Wednesday by state lawmakers. The Tennessee Senate voted 23-3 to advance the proposal that would bring back electrocution as the method of execution if lethal injection is deemed unconstitutional or the drugs cannot be obtained. Tennessee last used the electric chair in 2007. The proposal follows Tennessee's decision in September to adopt the sedative pentobarbital as a single-drug method of execution.



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