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While lethal injection is now the primary method of execution in the United States, electrocution remains an alternative form in nine states, should the condemned person choose it. Recent efforts to make lethal-injection chemicals unavailable have led several states to consider returning to electrocution. In Virginia, where this photograph was taken, the electric chair remains an option; it was last used on January 16, 2013. The State of Virginia requires ordinary citizens to act as witnesses in its executions; similarly, Devlin’s images confront viewers with the real spaces and implements of capital punishment.</P></SPAN>","remarks":"Photography and Belonging rotation"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"The artist; the Aaron Siskind Foundation; gifted to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1994.","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1991,"sortnumber":"1994  106x","published_date":"2026-03-31 02:20:48.359220","objectid":18879,"dimensions":"image: 49.1 x 48.9 cm (19 5/16 x 19 1/4 in.)\r\nsheet: 61.1 x 50.9 cm (24 1/16 x 20 1/16 in.)","on_view":false}