Electric chair banned in Nebraska

The Nebraska Supreme Court has banned the use of the electric chair in the execution of murderers. The court found that the application violated the Nebraska constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

Since July 2002, Nebraska has been the only state to use electrocution as its only executional method.
The case developed from death sentence of Raymond Mata Jr., who was convicted in the murder of three-year-old Adam Gomez. Mata's sentence was upheld by the court but stayed it stating that when petitioning for a date, the state should establish that it has a "constitutionally acceptable method of carrying out Mata's sentence."

SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/08/nebraska.electrocution/index.html