`  == Pedro Medina  ==  The article on Mariel boatlift included this text:  ``Pedro Medina, convicted of the 1982 stabbing of Dorothy James in Florida. His case attracted nationwide media coverage when the device used to executed Medina, Florida State Prison's long-decommisioned electric chair Old Sparky, malfunctioned, causing his head to catch fire. This had happened once before with the execution of Jesse Tafero in 1990 and once again with the execution of Allen Davis in 1999. After the Davis execution, Florida built a new chair. In 2000, they introduced lethal injection as an optional method of execution. Since then, all executions in the state of Florida have been performed by lethal injection, although electrocution can be administered at the request of the prisoner.``  I have reduced. I am not sure if there is any more that should be incorporated here.    `