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DescriptionMap of US lethal injection usage.svg	Usage of lethal injection chair for the death penalty in the United States. State uses only this method. State uses this method primarily but has secondary methods. State once used this method, but does not anymore. State once adopted this method, but dropped before its use. State has never used this method. U.S. military: only lethal injection Federal government: lethal injection as a primary method; retains secondary methods
Date	6 July 2007
Source	Map from Blank US Map.svg by Theshibboleth. Information from US lethal injection usage.png by Shadowlink1014 who credited deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu as the source. New colours by MissMJ Combined by Lokal_Profil
Author	Lokal_Profil
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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	02:05, 5 October 2021	945 × 593 (95 KB)	Evercool1	Updated New Hampshire as it never carried out a lethal injection before the death penalty was abolished in 2019. This state therefore goes from green to dark blue.
	06:25, 27 March 2021	945 × 593 (92 KB)	Awesomeness95	Updated Virginia.
	04:13, 15 July 2020	945 × 593 (95 KB)	Fluffy89502	update
	07:42, 6 December 2018	945 × 593 (78 KB)	Daviddwd	Washington State has banned executions as per https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/10/11/washington-bans-death-penalty-joining-very-clear-trend-nationally/1609439002/.
	18:28, 2 May 2016	945 × 593 (78 KB)	Huntster	Per http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/10/19/nebraska_death_penalty_petition_suspends_new_law_triggers_november_2016.html, Nebraska death penalty by lethal injection reinstated, at least until statewide referendum.
	16:16, 2 May 2016	945 × 593 (78 KB)	Huntster	Update again, new data type.
	20:03, 1 May 2016	945 × 593 (78 KB)	Huntster	Update.
	20:57, 9 February 2013	959 × 593 (101 KB)	Blackfish	Maryland uses gas chamber as second method for persons sentenced before 25 March 1994, so it's still possible (brown to orange) [[Category: Category:SVG maps of the United States Category:Death penalty maps of the United States]]
	03:09, 29 January 2012	959 × 593 (101 KB)	Xnux	Added information for U.S. territories, the U.S. federal government, and [[:w:List_of_individuals_executed_
	05:01, 10 July 2011	959 × 593 (82 KB)	Ibagli	Illinois has abolished the death penalty, and as a consequence no longer uses this method.