January-March, 2000: Constitutionality of electric chair

January-March, 2000: Constitutionality of electric chair.In January and in March, Eighth Amendment challenges to electrocution as a method of execution led to changes in Florida and Georgia. In January, as the U.S. Supreme Court considered hearing arguments regarding the constitutionality of Florida's electric chair, the state switched its primary method of execution to lethal injection, rendering the case moot. In March, the Georgia legislature also overwhelmingly voted to replace electrocution with lethal injection as the state's primary means of execution. Alabama and Nebraska remain the only states that use electrocution as their sole method of execution.