Matt Zapotosk The Washington Post

Virginia lawmakers are mulling a bill that would allow state officials to use the electric chair to execute those on death row when lethal-injection drugs are not available - a measure that might be needed to put an inmate to death next month.

Virginia lawmakers are mulling a bill that would allow state officials to use the electric chair to execute those on death row when lethal-injection drugs are not available - a measure that might be needed to put an inmate to death next month.