Lethal injection was first adopted by the U.S. state of Oklahoma in 1977, and Texas became the first state to execute someone by this method in 1982. Lethal injection was considered cheaper and more humane than either electrocution or the gas chamber, but shortages of the cocktail of drugs used in the execution protocol made the method less reliable in the 21st century.
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