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Input: HOUSTON (AP) — The execution of a Texas death row inmate was back on schedule Monday after a federal appeals court ruled that the state doesn't have to reveal where it gets its lethal injection drug. 
  
 The ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals means Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas, 44, is set for execution Wednesday. 
  
 Attorneys for Hernandez-Llanas and another inmate, Tommy Lynn Sells, had filed a lawsuit last week saying they needed the name of the drug supplier in order to verify the drug's potency. They said they feared the prisoners could suffer unconstitutional pain and suffering if the drug weren't tested. 
  
 The state argued it was protecting the company from threats of violence. 
  
 A lower court initially sided with the inmates, but the 5th Circuit reversed that ruling last week for Sells, who was executed Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the appeals court decision. The appeals court had said it would rule later on Hernandez-Llanas' case. 
  
 The state attorney general's office had urged the 5th Circuit to lift the lower court order, arguing that the new supply of pentobarbital came from a licensed compounding pharmacy. The state also noted that the drug had been used "painlessly and successfully" on Sells, and that there was "no pharmacy, no drug and no assurance of quality that Hernandez would find satisfactory." 
  
 Attorneys have decided not to appeal Monday's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court because the high court turned down the same request from Sells last week, according to Maurie Levin, among the lawyers who filed the drug secrecy lawsuit. 
  
 Instead, his lawyers have turned to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, arguing that his sentence should be commuted to life in prison or his execution at least delayed because of what they say was faulty testimony from psychologists at his trial. The psychologists told jurors that Hernandez-Llanas was not mentally impaired and would remain a future danger, which his lawyers dispute. ||||| NASHVILLE, Tenn Tennessee's electric chair would be pressed back into service for executions if the state cannot obtain drugs needed to carry out lethal injections under a bill advanced Wednesday by state lawmakers. 
  
 The Tennessee Senate voted 23-3 to advance the proposal that would bring back electrocution as the method of execution if lethal injection is deemed unconstitutional or the drugs cannot be obtained. Tennessee last used the electric chair in 2007. 
  
 The proposal follows Tennessee's decision in September to adopt the sedative pentobarbital as a single-drug method of execution. States have found it increasingly hard to obtain drugs for executions because many pharmaceutical firms, mainly in Europe, object to their use in capital punishment. 
  
 The bill's sponsor, Senator Ken Yager, said it "closes a loophole in current law." A companion bill is moving through the state House of Representatives. 
  
 Richard Dieter, executive director for the Death Penalty Information Center, which tracks executions, said such a law likely would be challenged as violating the U.S. Constitution's protections against cruel and unusual punishment. 
  
 By today's standards, electrocution could be considered a "painful and torturous" method of execution compared to lethal injection, Dieter said. 
  
 Lethal injection is the primary execution method in all states that have capital punishment, but some states allow for electrocution, hanging, firing squad or the gas chamber as alternate methods. 
  
 Tennessee would be the first state to revert to electrocution by legal mandate rather than an option chosen by an inmate, Dieter said. 
  
 Lawmakers in Missouri and Wyoming proposed adding firing squad as an execution method earlier this year. 
  
 The Tennessee Department of Correction does not have chemicals on hand to carry out executions, but is confident it will be able to secure them when needed, spokeswoman Dorinda Carter said. 
  
 "The electric chair is fully operational," she said when asked about the measure the legislature is considering. 
  
 (Reporting by Tim Ghianni; Editing by David Bailey and Eric Walsh) |||||
Output:
What do you do when you can't get your hands on the drugs in your lethal injection cocktail? As far as Tennessee's Senate is concerned, you fire up Old Sparky. The state's Senate yesterday voted 23-3 to advance a bill allowing the state to execute inmates via electric chair if lethal injection is for some reason not viable, Reuters reports. "The electric chair is fully operational," a Department of Correction spokeswoman said. It was last used in 2007. Many states are facing shortages of execution drugs, because many European companies that make the drugs refuse to sell them for use in executions. Tennessee would be the first state to turn to the electric chair, but Missouri and Wyoming are considering reviving their firing squads. Texas has managed to get a secret supply of drugs, and a federal court ruled this week that it could remain secret. Ohio, meanwhile, is looking to cut back on executions. The Ohio Supreme Court Death Penalty Task Force will today finalize a report suggesting sweeping reforms, including banning the execution of the mentally ill and requiring DNA evidence or a videotaped confession for a death sentence, the Columbus Dispatch reports.