As of 2014, the electric chair is not an optional form of execution in Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Marvin Harold Zindler -LRB- August 10 , 1921 -- July 29 , 2007 -RRB- was a news reporter for television station KTRK-TV in Houston , Texas , United States .. KTRK-TV. KTRK-TV. television. television. His investigative journalism , through which he mostly represented the city 's elderly and working class , made him one of the city 's most influential and well-known media personalities .. investigative journalism. investigative journalism