Currently, lethal injection is the method used or allowed in all of the 32 states which allow the death penalty. Nebraska required electrocution, but in 2008 the state's supreme court ruled that the method was unconstitutional. In mid-2009 Nebraska officially changed its method of execution to lethal injection.[94][95][96] Other states also allow electrocution, firing squad, hanging, and lethal gas. From 1976 to August 6, 2014, there were 1,386 executions, of which 1,211 were by lethal injection, 158 by electrocution, 11 by gas chamber, 3 by hanging, and 3 by firing squa