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State lawmakers approved a bill that will require condemned inmates to choose between dying in the electric chair or by a firing squad if lethal injection drugs aren't available.

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich's office said it has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to set a briefing schedule before filing execution warrants.

Under current law, executions in the state must be carried out by lethal injection unless an inmate chooses electrocution.

Thirteen death row inmates were put to death in seven months after the Trump administration resumed federal executions last July.

The "Ghost Adventures" host purchased paintings and other items that once belonged to the killer from his stepdaughter.

"The four murderers whose executions are scheduled today have received full and fair proceedings under our Constitution and laws," said Attorney General William Barr in a Monday statement.

That the integrity of drugs in states' hands would be unreliable is a concern, but Dr. Joel Zivot says that states should be disclosing "if what they have is expired."

If put to death on Friday, Lee Hall will be the fourth person in Tennessee to choose the electric chair over lethal injection within the past year.

"This is not a happy night. This is the end of a horror story," the McLennan County District Attorney said.

The inmates argued that the state has the means to orchestrate their deaths by firing squad.

Rodney Scott Berget was executed by lethal injection for a 2011 murder during a failed attempt to escape from jail.

Three days before his scheduled execution, convicted killer Edmund Zagorski convinced Tennessee's Supreme Court to spare him death by lethal injection in favor of the electric chair.

Carey Dean Moore has been on death row for almost 40 years.

Bible, 66, was executed on Wednesday in Huntsville.

The most important question is whether killing prisoners with nitrogen is cruel and unusual, the constitutional threshold for death penalty implementation.

Moody killed a judge and an attorney in December 1989 using package bombs.

Oklahoma is one of many states attempting to move beyond lethal injection as a method of execution.

The ACLU said that in attaining a DEA registration to import drugs, Nebraska listed a licensed prison pharmacy that's not located where the drugs will be used for the executions.

Doyle Lee Hamm's execution was abandoned after 2.5 hours when medical staff could not find a suitable vein in his groin, feet or legs.

Capital punishment cases are down but five of the 23 executions this year still highlight the arguments of those who oppose the death penalty.

An opioid at the heart of America's drug epidemic will be used for death row executions in Nevada and Nebraska if the never-before-tried combination of drugs is approved.

A Nevada inmate has asked a judge for his execution to take place on Tuesday after pleading for a year to be put to death.

This will mark the first time in Florida's history a white man has been executed for killing a black man.

The forensic pathologist doesn't want his legacy to be creation of the country's first lethal injection method.

Ledelle Lee and Kenneth Williams received communion, while Marcel Williams and Jack Jones had more elaborate requests.

The state rushed to execute death row prisoners before a drug used in lethal injections expired.

Governor Asa Hutchinson scheduled several executions of death row inmates before the state's supply of midazolam expires. But experts question whether the drug should ever have been part of lethal injections in the first place.

The double execution took place days after the state ended a nearly 12-year hiatus on executing prisoners on death row.

Ledell Lee, one of eight men sentenced to death, was executed on Thursday night.

Staring in January, Ohio will again begin executing inmates after halting the practice in 2014.